Republican Gomorrah Documents the Christian Right Takeover of the GOP
…sychology. One of the earliest sociologists to challenge the paradigms of Fromm, Hoffer, and Hofstadter was Michael Paul Rogin at Berkeley, whose 1967 book The Intellectuals and McCarthy: The Radical Specter argued that centrist scholars sought to demonize radical ideas and thus developed theories about radicals and “extremists” of the left and right as being dangerous to civil society. According to this “centrist-extremist” theory, “psychologica…
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