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American politics1 quote
Third parties are like bees. Once they have stung, they die. — Richard Hofstadter · 1955Conspiracy theories1 quote
The distinguishing thing about the paranoid style is not that its exponents see conspiracies or plots here and there in history, but that they regard a "vast" or "gigantic" conspiracy as the motive force in historical events. History is a conspiracy, set in motion by demonic forces of almost trancendent power, and what is felt to be needed to defeat it is no the usual methods of political give and take, but an all-out crusade. — Richard Hofstadter · 1964Political theory1 quote
Third parties are like bees. Once they have stung, they die. — Richard Hofstadter · 1955