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Trump doubled down on the New Right strategy, but the political, economic and demographic ground has shifted in the half century since the reactionary “silent majority” was first conjured into being.

And while those furies sometimes ebb, they also sometimes flow. In a November 1963 lecture that formed the basis of a Harper’s cover story and of a book, the Columbia historian Richard Hofstadter defined what he called “the paranoid style in American politics,” a recurring popular tendency to adhere to extreme conspiratorial theories about threats

In 2014 American character changed. A large and influential generation came of age in the shadow of accumulating failures by the ruling class—especially by business and foreign policy elites. This new generation had little faith in ideas that previous ones were raised on: All men are created equal. Work hard and you can be anything. Knowledge is

American civilization faced an existential threat from progressivism began meeting during the Cold War years, at first informally, to plot against the country’s liberal drift.

His first action on reelection was to set about removing all treasonous works from the city’s schools and libraries. Thompson appointed a theater owner and former billboard changer named Sport Hermann to purge the city’s institutions of any works that were less than “100 percent American.” Hermann appointed a body called the Patriots’ League to

“We’re still a ten-day nation, Walter,”