The #Paranoid Style in American #Politics ( Harper’s 1964)
American politics has often been an arena for angry minds. In recent years we have seen angry minds at work mainly among extreme right-wingers who have now demonstrated in the #Goldwater movement how much political leverage can be got out of the animosities & passions of a small minority… I call it the paranoid style … heated #exaggeration, #suspiciousness , & #conspiratorial #fantasy that I have in mind
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https://harpers.org/archive/1964/11/the-paranoid-style-in-american-politics/
