![]() ![]() "In fact, 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. Hofstadter said that he was borrowing a clinical term, and neither was competent or desirous of diagnosing people with the style he described. To take a recent example of the style, well after Hofstadter's work, Hillary Clinton said, in 1998, that president Bill Clinton was the victim of a "politically motivated" prosecutor allied with a "vast right-wing conspiracy." ![]() or historically in terms of McCarthyism, but it decidedly is not limited to one part of the political spectrum. The work is frequently mentioned in terms of current right-wing activity such as the Tea Party movement or current Republican Party (United States). "The Paranoid Style in American Politics" is an essay on American political behavior by Richard Hofstadter, published in 1964 in Harper's Magazine, adapted from a lecture at Oxford University in November 1963. ![]()
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