2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Hillary's historian refutes Sanders claim that this country is "created on racist principles". [View all]MisterP
(23,730 posts)so ironically we have two types of populism at loggerheads her!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sean_Wilentz#Scholarship
http://www.amazon.com/The-Rise-Fall-White-Republic/dp/1859844677
he also said the liberal intelligentsia had allowed turrsts like Ayers and Wright into politics and damned Snowden, Greenwald, and Assange as traitors
"the value of some of their revelations does not mean that they deserve the prestige and influence that has been accorded to them. The leakers and their supporters would never hand the state modern surveillance powers, even if they came wrapped in all sorts of rules and regulations that would constrain their abuse. They are right to worry, but wrong even paranoid to distrust democratic governments in this way. Surveillance and secrecy will never be attractive features of a democratic government, but they are not inimical to it, either. This the leakers will never understand."
quite an *ahem* historian