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The sociopathic style in American politics

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The hysterical reaction on the right to Joe Biden's eminently moderate vaccine mandates provides a kind of textbook example of what I will call the sociopathic style in American politics. I'm alluding here to Richard Hofstadter's famous essay on the paranoid style, and, following his usage,...
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Authoritarians, not hypocrites

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Sarah Jones has a good post observing that Republican supporters of abortion criminalization have a perfectly coherent ideology, even if the ends are generally justified with pretextual means: What, then, should we make of this conservative consistency? What looks like hypocrisy should be understood as a...
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