This is the fountainhead of 2Oth Century American conspiracy theories. Name checks Hofstadter. Older "deep states". Repub Party barnacles and tentacles.

[Mark Kohut]

Nice. Exact. Thanks...

On Sun, Jan 9, 2022 at 3:49 PM Thomas Eckhardt <
huebschraeuber at protonmail.com> wrote:

> Aggregatable to the present...
>
> Once again, here is Hofstadter on Welch:
>
> 'As for Eisenhower himself, Welch characterized him, in words that have
> made the candy manufacturer famous, as “a dedicated, conscious agent of
> the Communist conspiracy”—a conclusion, he added, “based on an
> accumulation of detailed evidence so extensive and so palpable that it
> seems to put this conviction beyond any reasonable doubt.”'
>
>
> https://harpers.org/archive/1964/11/the-paranoid-style-in-american-politics/
>
> Am 09.01.2022 um 17:40 schrieb Mark Kohut:
> > Rick Perlstein gives a lot of space and history to the mail order guy's
> > base of work, aggregatable to the present.
> > I hope this biographer is wrong
> >
> https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v44/n01/colin-kidd/big-stick-swagger?utm_campaign=20220108icymi&utm_content=20220108icymi%20CID_933d47949b4b77267ac2d8bbfaa8abcd&utm_medium=email&utm_source=LRB%20email&utm_term=Read%20more
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