janhoglund on Nostr: In a populistic culture like ours, which seems to lack a responsible elite with ...
In a populistic culture like ours, which seems to lack a responsible elite with political and moral autonomy, and in which it is possible to exploit the wildest currents of public sentiment for private purposes, it is at least conceivable that a highly organized, vocal, active, and well-financed minority could create a political climate in which the rational pursuit of our well-being and safety would become impossible
—Richard Hofstadter, The Paranoid Style in American Politics (1964), 65
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