Sarah’s Reviews > A Great Disorder: National Myth and the Battle for America > Status Update

"[In his famous 'mud-sill speech' of 1858, South Carolina Senator James] Hammond's ideology anticipates the 'plutocratic populism' of the modern Right, assigning the highest value and power to the holders of wealth, which poor and working-class White people will accept so long as their superiority to non-White people is guaranteed." (pp. 82-83)