1. The @JoshuaMZeitz essay linked to here is nuanced & very much worth reading, but Hofstadter is an unreliable guide to populism & many other issues.https://twitter.com/jonathanchait/status/953113526456942592 …
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4. Hofstadter & his followers also do disservice by applying "populist" label to McCarthyism, New Right, Trumpism, etc: all movements that crucially depend on elite GOP & business class support.
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5. Right-wing authoritarianism is a politics of aggrieved privilege, of elites & high-caste people who feel under siege. Calling it populist obscures that fact.
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on present populism though that sounds spot on
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Worth noting that the article explicitly refers and responds to Goodwyn's critique of Hofstadter.
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