The crucial array of historians provides an ample framework for the first conspiracy society in modern America. Richard Hofstadter offers a competent account of conspiracy theory as a root of a radical fringe to erode social solidarities using “political rhetoric to get at political pathology.” The very nature of conspiracy theory, Hofstadter argues, is the feature of deeply disturbed mind with aggravated affinity for bad cause. In its earliest manifestation, according to Hofstadter “paranoid style is pejorative, and it is meant to be…for bad causes than
The crucial array of historians provides an ample framework for the first conspiracy society in modern America. Richard Hofstadter offers a competent account of conspiracy theory as a root of a radical fringe to erode social solidarities using “political rhetoric to get at political pathology.” The very nature of conspiracy theory, Hofstadter argues, is the feature of deeply disturbed mind with aggravated affinity for bad cause. In its earliest manifestation, according to Hofstadter “paranoid style is pejorative, and it is meant to be…for bad causes than