The correct answer for the question that is being presented above is this one: "all of the above." McCarthyism succeed at first: McCarthyism fed on the public's fears of foreign influence in the United States; McCarthy gave the impression that he was purging the nation of a very dangerous, and seemingly very real, Communist menace; <span>The Republican Party encouraged McCarthy's attacks because they believed that the attacks would help them to win the 1952 Presidential election.</span>
