Status Updates From The Age of Reform (Awarded ...

"The central theme in Progressivism was this revolt against the industrial discipline: the Progressive movement was the complaint of the unorganized against the consequences of organization."

They're saying it's the worst summation of the Progressive Era of all time. Richard what the hell are you talking about. Patently absurd.

Bad sourcing is a Hofstadter special. Ridiculous critique of Ignatius Donnelly as "sadistic" for his dystopian fiction. Hofstadter's attacks on the Populists from a liberal angle fall flat because he doesn't acknowledge the Herrenvolk nature of America writ large, only in the progressive Populist movement and rural anxieties. Reads like Clinton-Schumerian theory lol

"But Prohibition was more than a symbol--it was a means by which the reforming energies of the country were transmuted into mere peevishness."

In other words, Prohibition is not a metaphor. (Sorry.)

"What the nativist mind most resolutely opposed was not so much war itself as cooperation with European governments for any ends at all."