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The staple paranoias of US politics
DENNIS BROE takes issue with the US political Establishment's paranoid inability to look critically at itself and its deeds worldwide and the proclivity for shameless blame games
The biggest strike in global history is a template for our future. The silence tells you all you need to know, writes CLAUDIA WEBBE
KEITH FLETT highlights the inimical role of the strategist who helped shape Tony Blair’s ascent and whose political blueprint continues to echo in the era of Keir Starmer
70 years on from Khruschev’s closed-door address to the Communist Party of the Soviet Union’s 20th Congress, Kenny Coyle talks to academic and writer RICHARD SAKWA about the significance of this political bombshell, in which Stalin’s ‘cult of personality,’ abuse of power and mass repressions were denounced
Small Prophets finds Mackenzie Crook conjuring tiny prophetic beings from working-class malaise, writes STEPHEN ARNELL
RICHARD HOFSTADTER’S famous 1964 essay The Paranoid Style in American Politics is a diatribe against the hard right, appearing on the eve of Barry Goldwater’s Republican nomination for president.
The style though, of constantly pointing the finger outward and never inward to one’s own faults, is a constant tendency in American political thought from McCarthyism’s branding of the communist threat at a time when the Soviet Union was weakened from WWII to Reagan’s Nicaraguans who were about to attack the mainland to Trump’s border refugees fleeing the ravages of the Global South who are hell-bent on destroying the US.
What is new in this campaign is the embracing of that style by the liberal center or really center right, as the Democratic party candidate Kamala Harris welcomes the architect of the criminal war on Iraq Dick Chaney and his daughter Liz into the party’s “big tent.”
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