not always true I would say! the depression saw a huge increase in membership in the CPUSA, interest in socialism, and enthusiasm for the New Deal. The late 19th century economic crises saw the rise of labor movements and populism (granted, politics often ambiguous) and socialismhttps://twitter.com/vegandruggie/status/1256627763295006720 …
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Populism was good. Don't fall for Hofstadter's tripe.
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Is that Postel's book Equality?
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Will check it out. His earlier book on populism is good. But it'll need evidence to convince me that they populists were more implicated in those things than the anti-populists. Nugent's The Tolerant Populists remains convincing.
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