14. Far right movements now more purely populist & don't seek intellectual justification. Mussolini cultivated Pound. Trump mocks eggheads
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@HeerJeet Might I remind you that your first tweet in this series contains the phrase: "I'll try to be brief."Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@HeerJeet And here I'll repeat Sloterdijk as a candidate for a "reactionary mind."Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@HeerJeet two responses: 1) a strain of early liberalism also believed in human and social perfectibility. Radical, optimistic, important. -
@DrO_aorzoff Sure but that Godwinite strain in liberalism has always been a minority.
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@HeerJeet 2) what about pessimistic, semi-Spenglerian historians like Bernard Lewis and Daniel Pipes, and their influence? -
@DrO_aorzoff As far as i can tell Lewis & Pipes largely influential for clash of civiliztion reasons, not as Spenglerians.
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@HeerJeet Your tweets never matched your avatar so well as in this thread.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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