“There has always been in our national experience a type of mind which elevates hatred to a kind of creed; for this mind, group hatreds take a place in politics similar to the class struggle in some other modern societies.”

—  Richard Hofstadter

Source: Anti-Intellectualism in American Life (1974), p. 37

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