A review by wah38
Anti-Intellectualism in American Life by Richard Hofstadter
5.0
"When a right-wing leader accuses Dwight D. Eisenhower of being a conscious, dedicated agent of the international Communist conspiracy, he may seem demented, by the usual criteria of the political intelligence, but ... what he is trying to account for is not Eisenhower's actual political behavior ... but Eisenhower's place, as a kind of fallen angel, in the realm of ultimate moral and spiritual values, which to him has greater reality than mundane politics."
These words apply so easily to today. Why do a majority of Republicans think that Obama is a Muslim? Not because they are trying to account for his actual political behavior, but because their moral and spiritual values tell them that Obama is bad, Islam is bad, and therefore Obama is a Muslim.
These words apply so easily to today. Why do a majority of Republicans think that Obama is a Muslim? Not because they are trying to account for his actual political behavior, but because their moral and spiritual values tell them that Obama is bad, Islam is bad, and therefore Obama is a Muslim.