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    1. Noah Smith  🐇 🇺🇦‏Verified account @Noahpinion 23 Dec 2017
      Replying to @HeerJeet

      You mean his description of "pseudo-conservatives", or the "paranoid style"?

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    2. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 23 Dec 2017
      Replying to @Noahpinion

      Both. Michael Rogin's "Intellectuals and McCarthyism" has some good criticism. In a more popular vein, @notjessewalker's book on conspiracy theories also good.

      1 reply 0 retweets 7 likes
    3. Jeff Nichols‏ @backwards_river 23 Dec 2017
      Replying to @HeerJeet @Noahpinion @notjessewalker

      But Hofstadter is great for screenshots. He was such a fantastic stylist.

      1 reply 0 retweets 3 likes
    4. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 23 Dec 2017
      Replying to @backwards_river @Noahpinion @notjessewalker

      That's what makes him dangerous.

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    5. Jeff Nichols‏ @backwards_river 23 Dec 2017
      Replying to @HeerJeet @Noahpinion @notjessewalker

      In a similar vein, I think John Higham is a great moralist, but a flawed historian.

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    6. Noah Smith  🐇 🇺🇦‏Verified account @Noahpinion 23 Dec 2017
      Replying to @backwards_river @HeerJeet

      I'm sure all historians are flawed. I'll read more contemporary accounts of the things Higham writes about, but I wanted to start with a historian whose attitudes are less shaped by the same influences that shaped my own.

      2 replies 0 retweets 2 likes
    7. Jeff Nichols‏ @backwards_river 23 Dec 2017
      Replying to @Noahpinion @HeerJeet

      Here’s what I mean about Higham. There actually were schemes to organize German-Americans in military operations against Canada during WWI. There were German-Americans who openly rejoiced over the sinking of American ships. Wacht am Rhein is a provocative song. I could go on.pic.twitter.com/pVIC2dLMqG

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    8. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 23 Dec 2017
      Replying to @backwards_river @Noahpinion

      Well, I'd say anti-German hysteria in World War I was wildly out of proportion to any threat German-Americans posed.

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    9. Noah Smith  🐇 🇺🇦‏Verified account @Noahpinion 23 Dec 2017
      Replying to @HeerJeet @backwards_river

      Yeah Jeff, this is pretty weak criticism!!

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    10. Peter A. Shulman  📚‏ @pashulman 23 Dec 2017
      Replying to @Noahpinion @HeerJeet @backwards_river

      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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      Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 23 Dec 2017
      Replying to @pashulman @Noahpinion @backwards_river

      Right -- which goes to one of the central problems. As consensus historian Hofstadter could only see danger on fringes, not at heart of USA culture.

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        2. Noah Smith  🐇 🇺🇦‏Verified account @Noahpinion 23 Dec 2017
          Replying to @HeerJeet @pashulman @backwards_river

          Though in his essay on Goldwater, he did talk about how and why the fringe of hardcore Goldwater supporters managed to take over the entire Republican party. So I would say that this characterization of him is not entirely accurate, Jeet.

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        3. Peter A. Shulman  📚‏ @pashulman 23 Dec 2017
          Replying to @Noahpinion @HeerJeet @backwards_river

          You should read Hofstadter! But also Lisa McGirr, Kevin Kruse, Jennifer Burns, Meg Jacobs, Jeff Cowie, Robert Self, Shane Hamilton, Bethany Moreton, Andrew Hartman, Daniel Rodgers, Kim Phillips-Fein, Dan Carter, Nicole Hemmer, Matt Lassiter, & Angus Burgin.

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        1. ATXRambler‏ @rambler_atx 23 Dec 2017
          Replying to @HeerJeet @pashulman and

          One central mistake is to assume there is a monolithic US culture, or to privilege certain strains as the "real" culture.

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