Jeffrey St. Clair @JSCCounterPunch
But that has deep roots in American politics and culture, which politicians have exploited since the Know-Nothing movement of the 1850s. Read Hofstader's Anti-Intellectualism in American Life, published in 1963. — PolitiTweet.org
Steve Silberman @stevesilberman
@JSCCounterPunch Sure. But the embrace of an utterly fact-free worldview with cult-like qualities goes beyond mere racism.