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Article: Years ago, Richard Hofstadter wrote an essay called "The Paranoid Style in American Politics.".(The Week)(Brief Article)
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- National Review
- Article date:
- November 29, 2004
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* Years ago, Richard Hofstadter wrote an essay called "The Paranoid Style in American Politics." It was about the Right, and conservatives have long been teased on this score. But what if that essay were written today? Early in the campaign, leading Democrats speculated out loud that the administration was holding bin Laden somewhere, to spring him on the public at a politically opportune moment. Then, when bin Laden showed up in a videotape, some Democrats--including The Most Trusted Man in America, Walter ...