2. One sees the snobs & slobs alliance in McCarthyism, with roughneck Tailgunner Joe providing the popular touch while Wilmoore Kendall & William F. Buckley (and even, sadly Sidney Hook) providing a high-brow rational for red baiting.
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3. As I mentioned the other day, anti-CRT movement has this component, with both a very explicitly racialist base stirring up shit & a very organized think tank/dark money infrastructure pushing it into respectable form of GOP bills.
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4. As I mentioned before, the 1974 text book wars in West Virginia, where fundamentalist parents dynamited a school building to oppose comparative religion text, is real model. Heritage Foundation send lawyers to defend accused bombers & mobilize parents into New Right.
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5. The anti-CRT has to be understood politically: its a strategy for the out-of-national-power right to consolidate base & recruit new people. School controversies are great for right because they can cultivate local hotheads & turn them into political functionaries.
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6. I did a podcast with
@rickperlstein, the great Homeric chronicler of the American Right, tracing the origins of the anti-CRT agitation back to the schools wars of the distant past but also the New Right playbook of 1970s. It's a great conversation!https://jeetheer.substack.com/p/podcast-rick-perlstein-on-moral-panic?r=bh54&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email&utm_source=twitter …Show this thread
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Italian and some other Southern European Fascisms and National Socialism as well?
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Indeed, as with Enoch Powell and his intellectual descendants here. I wrote about this here:https://www.politics.co.uk/comment-analysis/2019/04/25/scruton-is-part-of-an-intellectual-culture-giving-respectability-to-racism/ …
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A fine article! Thanks for the link.
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