
Richard Hofstadter’s ”The Paranoid Style of American Politics”
Theory & Philosophy
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Fear of the Masons
The anti-Masonry movement or fear of the masons. This had a lot to do similarly with the Illuminati, but people lost, I guess, they stopped using that as a way to justify their beliefs. They shifted their focus on to masonry because they believed that there were these people within government that had way too much power than they should have. And it was believed that the masons were doing this.
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