Sublime

In fact, though, Weaver was not so much antiliberal as antimodern. This shows itself, for example, in his discussion of private property. He praises private property as “the last metaphysical right.” But although he clearly appreciates the place of private property in fostering liberty and forestalling the tyranny of the state, his defense is

“I’m a simple man,” he said with great simplicity, “and I want to talk to you about simple things. You’ll get no highfalutin’ talk from me. “First of all, you people want jobs. Isn’t that so?… “Well, that’s the only and prime purpose of the National Revolutionary Party—to get jobs for everyone…. “This is our country and we must fight to keep it so.

Weaver was “a

But for the Virginia-born Wilson, the New Freedom was for whites only. The first southerner elected president since Zachary Taylor, Wilson immediately segregated the government’s workforce.

Weaver was a professor of rhetoric.

Combine a republican commitment to equality with an accompanying commitment to white supremacy, and this is what you got: a rapidly expanding empire of settlers that fed on land but avoided incorporating people.