I'm glad I'm not the only one who hates Richard Hofstadter!
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Replying to @matthewstoller @HeerJeet and
On the other hand, Hofstadter did offer this ideahttps://harpers.org/archive/1964/11/the-paranoid-style-in-american-politics/ …
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Replying to @Horned_OwlJA @HeerJeet and
That's one of the single most destructive essays in recent American history.
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Replying to @tomdissonance @Horned_OwlJA and
Conflating greenbackers, populists, and white supremacists is horrific. Like saying neo-Nazis and anti-Nazi protesters are the same.
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Replying to @tomdissonance @matthewstoller and
In general, Hofstadter greatly overinflated bigotry & anti-Semitism of populists (See Nugent's Tolerant Populists).
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Replying to @Horned_OwlJA @HeerJeet and
In fact, the history of American populism is full of nativism and xenophobia, not to mention racism and religious bigotry. This used to be widely understood.
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Even with anti-black racism, pervasive in white America at time, early populists attempted multi-racial coalition politics.
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Replying to @HeerJeet @tomdissonance and
Key word is "early" here, because as things developed, not so much later, for example https://ncse.com/library-resource/racism-publics-perception-evolution …pic.twitter.com/8pPCvqpVJ0
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