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Teaches American History at Willamette University. Wrote a book on Tom Paine and the Americans who hated/loved him. Writing a book on nostalgia in 19th C Am.

Salem, Or
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    Seth Cotlar‏ @SethCotlar Mar 3

    I think my most heretical historian's opinion is that Richard Hofstadter's analysis of the "pseudo-conservative" right wingers of the 1950s and 1960s was far more right than it was wrong.

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      2. Seth Cotlar‏ @SethCotlar Mar 3

        I mean, read this from 1955. It's hard to think of pieces that are 65 years old that manage to stand up this well.https://theamericanscholar.org/the-pseudo-conservative-revolt/ …

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      3. Seth Cotlar‏ @SethCotlar Mar 3

        This 2018 piece by @cterbeek argues Hofstadter's case pretty persuasively.https://ahousedividedapd.com/2018/10/03/movement-conservatism-and-pseudo-conservatism/ …

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      4. Seth Cotlar‏ @SethCotlar Mar 3

        These sentences were written in 1955 about the far right political movements Hofstadter saw emerging around him, building momentum, and trying to gain a foothold in the Republican Party.pic.twitter.com/wI6e8pWJsg

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      5. Seth Cotlar‏ @SethCotlar Mar 3

        The final paragraph of that 1955 essay is pretty interesting, both in terms of what he got wrong and also what he saw potentially coming down the pike.pic.twitter.com/imjiHzGelA

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      6. Seth Cotlar‏ @SethCotlar Mar 4

        Published today. I believe the ghost of Hofstadter just raised his eyebrows knowingly.pic.twitter.com/g6QjatIlvU

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      7. Seth Cotlar‏ @SethCotlar Mar 4

        Full text.https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2021/03/02/why-gop-cant-quit-trump/ …

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      2. GeorgeW‏ @gwilliagh Mar 3
        Replying to @SethCotlar

        Can you elaborate?

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      3. Seth Cotlar‏ @SethCotlar Mar 3
        Replying to @gwilliagh

        In the 1990s it was standard practice to frame one's analysis of conservatism against Hofstadter's idea of "status anxiety." But I think that required people to oversimplify his argument to create a strawman to argue against.

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      1. Paul Matzko‏ @PMatzko Mar 3
        Replying to @SethCotlar

        It's perfectly understandable now that we're looking back through the lens of Trump, CPAC, Fox News, Limbaugh's death, and so on.

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      2. Austin J. Clements‏ @ClementsAustinJ Mar 3
        Replying to @SethCotlar

        “Hofstadter was more right than wrong” is an opinion that can get you cut in this profession. I’ve argued this with his treatment of populism in Age of Reform and populism’s relationship to this essay in particular, and even in small circles I have not emerged unscathed

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      3. Seth Cotlar‏ @SethCotlar Mar 3
        Replying to @ClementsAustinJ

        As with anything written 5 decades ago, there will always be things that now don't hold up well. But I think many people who use him as a strawman haven't actually read his work, only uncharitable summaries of it.

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