>Kazin notes that Watson only became a major Antisemite after the
>People's Party failed. Before that, I guess he was a minor antisemite.
>
> I wonder about "red-eyed." Is this an illusion to syphilis, with which
>Jews were associated in the popular imagination, as they were with
>"white slavery," abortion, birth control and everything licentious and
>evil? Or are the Jews supposed to be just tired from counting their
>money?
>
>Katha
Antisemitism may be the populism of fools--and after the twentieth century we have no tolerance for narratives about good engineers of sound northern european stock vs. evil Jewish financiers. But there was an awful lot more to populism than that...
Brad DeLong