Scott D. Pierce: PBS documentary shows parallels between McCarthy and Trump — including one the press won’t like

PBS’ “American Experience” documentary about Joe McCarthy is deeply disturbing — not just because of the senator’s outrageous lying, red-baiting and gay-baiting, but because of the parallels between what happened in the early 1950s and what’s happening today.And the similarities go far beyond the fact that both McCarthy and Donald Trump employed the nefarious Roy Cohn as their legal adviser.There are also disconcerting parallels between how the media of the 19