I wouldn't rely on Hofstadter without looking at his major critics (Michael Rogin, Lawrence Goodwyn & vast literature on populism).
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Yeah Jeff, this is pretty weak criticism!!
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The paranoid style remains a great and insightful essay on political ideas. It just doesn’t capture the much wider reasons wild right wing ideas got laundered or mobilized by totally non-paranoid politicians and voters.
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My criticism is the false confidence Higham instills. For example, if you can discount criticism of the movement to embargo arms to the Allies as nativist hysteria with the sole evidence that it looks like the way nativist minds always, always work, you won’t understand 1917. 1/pic.twitter.com/pZuYQUPRb1
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There’s ample archival evidence the German Embassy heavily funded the embargo movement. Do I think that justified wartime repression? Absolutely not. But it’s important in understanding the total collapse of German-American political power and the passage of the Espionage Act 2/
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