great review. "By 1924, for the first time in American history, fewer than half the eligible voters cast ballots."https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/jon-grinspan-age-of-acrimony/ …
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gilded age reformists, well-intentioned and not, deserve more blame for strangling U.S. democracy in the cradle. professionalizing politics to keep the riffraff from doing too much patronage just justified Jim Crow in the South and encouraged oligarchic control everywhere else.
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I loved the mugwumps when I learned about them in high school but that was obviously because of a) propaganda and b) great branding
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I'm not too sharp on the uptake but I've never liked them. Gotta credit Hofstadter on this one. He was rightly scornful and I took the hint.
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