The idea of the paranoid style as a force in politics would have little contemporary relevance or historical … - Richard Hofstadter

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Richard Hofstadter

The idea of the paranoid style as a force in politics would have little contemporary relevance or historical value if it were applied only to men with profoundly disturbed minds. It is the use of paranoid modes of expression by more or less normal people that makes the phenomenon significant.

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