Allison Kronlein > Recent Status Updates

I don’t love how she called grassroots activists “amateurs”. I mean I understand what she was getting at but ugh it just seems unfair

I’m glad I kept going cause I’m locked in now.

I’m glad I kept going cause it is getting better. However, so many of her points feel super speculative which just isn’t what I was looking for when I picked this up. She has overall good points, but she spends so much time on the woulda coulda shoulda when I just want the history.

I’m finding this really hard to get through unfortunately. Overall she’s making some good points but she does a lot of both over explaining and under explaining. I’m going to keep going for now, but I fear I may need to move on and come back at a later date.

Oh baby, we’re getting to the good part now.

Chapter 6 goes crazy

“O’Donnell then told the Chicago Tribune that a woman who is the mother of six children wouldn’t have time to devote to the national presidency of the [NFRW]. Charges about her six children continued to be heard throughout the fight.” Don’t pmo. When will motherhood ever stop being viewed as an impairment? They wouldn’t have said that about a man.

History just loves to repeat itself.

At some point I’ve found myself wondering when American politics became so deeply wound up in and tied to personal morality—when we shifted away from disagreements over how government should work to relentlessly othering our peers on the grounds of irreconcilable differences in virtue. I’m beginning to understand in part through this book’s historical analysis, especially concerning the anticommunist movement

I have already learned so much from this book. There’s so much about American political history that I’ve never known, and it’s giving so much context to our current political climate.

Idk guys. This is kinda weird so far but I’ll keep going