The Dirty Little Secret

The Dirty Little Secret
Americans vote at the Olbrich Botanical Gardens polling place in Madison, Wis., on Nov. 8, 2022. Jim Vondruska/Getty Images
Paul Gottfried
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It has long been the practice of our conservative media to blame the corrupt, “woke,” criminal coddling governments in our cities on the “Democratic Party.” This allows the conservative establishment to flatter the voting public as a source of wisdom while fobbing off its disastrous stupidity on some external force.

Paul Gottfried
Paul Gottfried
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Paul Gottfried is editor in chief of Chronicles: A Magazine of American Culture. He is also the Raffensperger Professor of Humanities Emeritus at Elizabethtown College, where he taught for 25 years, a Guggenheim recipient, and a Yale Ph.D. He is the author of 14 books, most recently “Antifascism: Course of a Crusade” (2021), and numerous articles and book reviews.
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