antisemitism and populism

[Mark Rickling]

From: Brad De Long <delong at econ.Berkeley.EDU>
> 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...

Populists were no more -- or no less -- antisemitic than contemporary
Democrats or Republicans. Vann Woodward has a good article on the subject of
Populist antisemitism somewhere.....

mark

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