15. The Rise of New Deal Liberalism
"Hamiltonian mechanisms in order to achieve a Jeffersonian vision." A&M, 7
"The Jacksonians and their labor radical friends understood nothing about this blessed nation, where expanding commerce and manufacturing, according to the American Quarterly Review, placed 'within reach of even the very poorest, a thousand comforts which were unknown to the rich in less civilized ages.'" Wilentz, 6.
"The only power capable of counteracting the transformation of the American economy would have to be national in scope.... It is an absurdity to expect to eliminate the abuses in great corporations by State action." A&M, 6, 7.
"He did nothing to address the question of racial equality in the South." A&M, 10
16. The Rise of Conservatism
"Race was the Achilles heel of the New Deal coalition in the South.... With help from the Democrats, the 'Southern Strategy' had worked." S&L 6, 14
"Three distinct but consonant tendencies of the post-war right." S&L, 8
"The supposed voice of working people wound up on the wrong side of tax reform." S&L, 18.
17. The Politics of Backlash
"I call them snobs for most of them disdain to mingle with the masses who work of a living. They mock the common man's pride in his work, his family and his country." S&L 80.
"The welfare ethic breads weak people." S&L, 92
"So I consider that all five of their principle objectives are anti-family." S&L, 106.
"'Impossible to suggest any kind of black-white working class coalition.'" A&M, 247.
"Poor whites and blacks are competing for a very limited piece of the pie." A&M, 282.
18. The Triumph of Conservatism
"Workers have to understand and feel deeply that what they are given depends on what they give—that they must supply work in order to demand goods." S&L, 123.
"Democrats needed to find another source of funding for their campaigns." A&M 361.
“Schlesinger . . . worried that its leaders were merely seeking to transform the party into a weak and unprincipled simulacrum, unable to stand up for itself in the political arena and therefore for America in a wider world—a liberalism, in other words, that would not take its own side in a street fight.” A&M 363.
"People getting their fundamental interests wrong is what American political life is all about." A&M, 404
Stared items (*) are the to help you answer big questions but won't be an ID term on the test. Items in [brackets] may not have appeared in the readings but they came up in class.
Jeffersonian agrarianism
Yeomen
Hamilton's Report on Manufactures*
Whig Party
New Deal
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Welfare state
Wagner Act (aka NLRA)
UAW
Classical liberalism
Negative freedom
Positive freedom
Second Bill of Rights
United Nations*
A. Philip Randolph
New Deal political coalition
Taft-Hartley
Dixiecrats
Joe McCarthy*
William F. Buckley
National Review
Fusion
Goldwater
Milton Friedman
Privatization
Appeasement*
Law and order
Conservative populism
Southern strategy
George Wallace
Silent majority
Think tanks*
Business lobbies
National Right to Work Committee*
Phyllis Schlafly
Right to Work Committee
Tax rebellion
Identity politics
George McGovern
McGovern commission
Primaries
Social values issues
Affirmative action
Busing
Law and order
George Meany
Roe v. Wade
ERA
Sexual revolution
Acid, amnesty, and abortion
Spiro Agnew
Lee Atwater
Limousine liberals
Ronald Reagan
Supply side economics
Christian right
Philadelphia, MS
[Dog Whistles]
Willie Horton*
PATCO
Privatization
Bill Clinton
DLC
John Kerry*
False Consciousness
Family values
Welfare reform bill*
Newt Gingrich
Rush Limbaugh
The center
Obama
19. Populism and anti-populism
"Liberals' 'claims to a monopoly on knowledge may even be more undemocratic than conservatives' policies for distributing wealth upward.'"; Populism isn't programmatic. "It wasn't then and isn't now. . . . It doesn't really stand for anything other than anger." Gabler, 8.
"Opponents of the Right should be claiming the high ground of populism, not ceding it to guys like Donald Trump." Frank, 21.
"Liberals do believe that the political views people sometimes hold are not, if they had more knowledge and were open to more deliberation, the political views they should hold. . . . Democracy requires leadership." Wolfe, 22.
"This is America. We're thinking having a Chicago Tea Party in July. All you capitalists I want you to show up to Lake Michigan. I'm going to start organizing." Rick Santelli on the floor of the Chicago Board of Trade.
20. Populism and democracy.
Two developments explain the rise of populism: "a decline in living standards from one generation to the next and the perceived threat to national identity posed by immigration and the growth of supranational organizations." Mounk, 29-30.
"The mass media does not connect the dots to reveal the corporatocracy.... The majority of Americans are actually populists who, in the sense that they are anti-elitists who trust the American people's judgement more than the corporate-government alliance." Levine, 10, 11.
"Deaths of Despair." Case and Deaton.
Neal Gabler
Condescension
William Jennings Bryan
Thomas Frank
Democracy scare
Anti-populism
[pseudo-populist]*
Demagogue
Populist movement
Hayseed
Elitist theory of democracy
Elite failure
Alan Wolfe
Liberal leadership
Rick Santelli
Tea Party
Right-wing populism
Left-wing populism
Opioid epidemic
Yascha Mounk
Tea Party
Right-wing populism
Left-wing populism
Great recession*
Antistatists*
Economic populists
Occupy Wall Street
Big Pharma
Pharmaceutical-industrial complex
Divide and conquer
Deaths of despair
"Contempt is the ingredient that kills personal relationships more swiftly than any other. Perhaps the same is true of our national politics." 31.
"Joe Biden's electoral victory rested in part on his ability to embrace change and diversity while also representing more traditional values." 39.
"Certain identity-focused rhetoric is a liability." 43.
"Conflict theorists naturally think mistake theorists are the enemy in their conflict." 51.
Better (now Braver) Angels
Kernels*
Civility movement*
Sociocultural threat
Authoritarian
Great replacement*
Universalist rhetoric
Woke language
Hidden Tribes*
Progressive activists*
Exhausted majority
Mistake theory
Conflict theory