550: Study Guide Unit 3 (2023)

12. First Party system to New Deal

"Hamiltonian mechanisms in order to achieve a Jeffersonian vision." A&M, 5

""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

14. 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 resonant 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.

15. 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.

16. 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.

"Democrats have become the party of individual rights but not individual responsibility; The party of self-expression but not moral accountability.” A&M, 362.

“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. Discipline of verification

Jeffersonian agrarianism

Yeomen

Hamilton's Report on Manufactures*

Whig Party
New Deal
Franklin D. Roosevelt

Welfare state

Wagner Act

UAW

Classical liberalism

Positive freedom

Herbert Croly*

Second Bill of Rights

United Nations*

A. Philip Randolph

Taft-Hartley

Dixiecrats

Joe McCarthy*

William F. Buckley

National Review  

Fusion

Goldwater

Milton Friedman

Appeasement*

New Deal coalition

Law and order

George Wallace

Conservative populism

White backlash

Southern strategy

Silent majority

Think tanks*

Business lobbies

National Right to Work Committee*

NRA

Phyllis Schlafly

Suburbanization

Neoconservatives*

Tax rebellion

Sunbelt*

Moral Majority*

George Wallace

Interest group liberalism*

Identity politics
George McGovern

McGovern commission

Qualitative liberalism*

Social values issues

Affirmative action

Busing

Cultural revolutionaries*

Crime

George Meany

Roe v. Wade

Phyllis Schlafley

ERA

Sexual revolution

Permissiveness

Agnew

Lee Atwater*

Limousine liberals

Liberal intellectuals*

Ronald Reagan

Supply side economics

Christian right
Philadelphia, MS
Southern strategy
Dog Whistle politics*
Willie Horton*
PATCO
Privatization
SDI  (Strategic Defense Initiative)*
DLC
Schlessinger (PEA alum)*

John Kerry*
False Consciousness

Family values
Welfare reform bill*
Newt Gingrich
Rush Limbaugh
Quarantining*
Toe the party line*

17. Populism and anti-populism

"A more accurate noun for this sentiment would be conservatism." Frank, 36.

"Populist parties . . . are linked not by a set of specific policy proposals but rather by a shared set of core concerns expressed in a language of outrage against the status quo and the political elites who maintain it."  Mounk, 31.

18. Populism and pseudo-populism.

“Roosevelt criticized orthodox economics, with its insistence that 'economic laws—sacred, inviolable, unchangeable—cause panics which no one could prevent.'” Frank, 90.

“Liberalism had developed a massive contradiction.” Frank, 201.

“This form of populism encouraged one group of working people to despise another.” Frank, 209

“Liberals claims to a monopoly on knowledge may even be more undemocratic than conservatives policies for distributing wealth upward.” Gabler, 2.

“Populism wasn't so much a philosophy of governance as an emotion.” Gabler, 3.

19. Populism and the liberals

"A revealing political fact of our time: the disappearance of class from the mainstream liberal agenda." Frank, 231.

"There is No Such Thing as a Good Trump Voter: They Don't Deserve Your Empathy." Frank, 236.

"A war that was simultaneously against elitism and in favor of science and culture.'" Frank, 252.

"The real issue, of course, was the place of professionals in a democracy." Frank, 266.

"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." Wolfe, 5.

"Democracy requires leadership." Wolfe, 5.

Thomas Frank
Anti-populism
Demagogue
Populist movement
Colored Farmer's Alliance*
Tom Watson (Frank, 43)
Jason Brennan, Against Democracy*
Deplorables
Right-wing populism
Left-wing populism
Elite failure
De-industrialization*
Opioid epidemic
Elitist theory of Democracy
Yascha Mounk
Tiberius Gracchus*
Tea Party*
Right-wing populism
Left-wing populism
Great recession*
Silent majorities
Enemies of the People
Antistatist*
National chauvinists*
Economic populists
Occupy Wall Street*
"Money Changers"
Purity tests
Pseudo-populists
Lawrence Goodwyn, Democratic Promise*
Technocratic liberalism
Austerity*
Inverted class war
Condescension
William Jennings Bryan (1896 & 1924)*
Inadequate consciousness
Ideological patience
Liberalism of scolding
"A Century of Protest"
Economic anxiety thesis
Irredeemables
Highbrow pessimism*
Freedom budget*
Little Blue Books
Refusal of deference
Bernie Sanders
American Medical Association
Medicare*

"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