
Richard Hofstadter’s ”The Paranoid Style of American Politics”
Theory & Philosophy
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The Renegade Is Used the Absolute Evil
Hofstadter: There's an obsession among such people to accumulate as many facts as possible. And this is often used as a way to compensate for a lack of cohesion among those facts. If anyone has seen the movie JFK, Awful Stones JFK, you'd know exactly what I mean. It goes through what feels like 10,000 different possible explanations for what happened to JFK and implicates so many people with so many varying interests that it's almost impossible to follow.
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