Question
Daniel Pipes argued that fear can drive regime changes and coups in a book about how this concept “flourishes and where it comes from.” For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this concept that results in “double sufferers” who are “afflicted not only by the real world… but by his fantasies as well,” according to a 1964 essay about this concept “in American Politics.”
ANSWER: the paranoid style [accept “The Paranoid Style in American Politics”; accept Conspiracy: How the Paranoid Style Flourishes and Where It Comes From; prompt on paranoia]
[10e] Richard Hofstadter was inspired to write about “The Paranoid Style in American Politics” after the nomination of this man at the 1964 RNC. This Arizona senator lost the 1964 presidential election to Lyndon B. Johnson.
ANSWER: Barry Goldwater [or Barry Morris Goldwater]
[10m] Hofstadter’s essay cites this cause as one of the earliest examples of the paranoid style. The disappearance of William Morgan prompted the formation of a party named for this cause, the first third party in the US.
ANSWER: anti-Masonry [accept the anti-Masonic party; accept answers describing opposing Freemasons; prompt on anti-Catholicism; prompt on anti-elitism]
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Summary
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