Hofstadter

“But the modern right wing … feels dispossessed: America has been largely taken away from them and their kind,” Hofstadter wrote.

By the time Hofstadter wrote that, the Red Scare had subsided, its loudest voices pushed to the fringe of U.S. politics.

In a 1964 article in Harper’s, the historian Richard Hofstadter outlined what he called “the paranoid style” in American politics.

Richard Hofstadter, one of the premier historians and public intellectuals of the 20th century, explained in his 1963 classic, “Anti-Intellectualism in American Life,” that most Americans view intelligence as merely functional.

Sociologist and historian Richard Hofstadter described this behavior as “a disorder in relation to authority, characterized by an inability to find other modes for human relationship than those of more or less complete domination or submission.”