intellectuals

But by 2016, many public intellectuals were criticizing the Democratic Party for abandoning its traditional coalition for the single-minded pursuit of middle-class voters, thereby giving Donald Trump an opening to seize the White House with a surge of white working-class support.

Here, Paik said, it is important for institutions to grant fellowships or have individuals who will fund and support intellectuals pursuing research.

So long as Trump is promising to hurt their shared enemies — intellectuals, minorities, women — he can say whatever; his base doesn’t know how “tariffs” work either and it’s actually suspicious if you do.

He ran for Congress as a member of the independent People’s Party, winning support from prominent Black intellectuals, including W.E.B.

Pishko also looks back to early influences like Cleon Skousen and forward to the involvement of the Claremont Institute's hard-right intellectuals, explores how different strands of right-wing ideology became intertwined with sheriff mythology and examines potential paths forward.