"Even in his lifetime, Kendall was hardly a famous figure, although the cognoscenti would recognize his formative influence on figures like William F. Buckley and L. Brent Bozell and, through them, the larger American right. "
I honestly wonder if I've read the guy, given that while I don't remember him, I did live pretty close to UD for decades. (And barely heard of it locally, unlike SMU (the supposed 'Oxford of the South' - very much a hermetic experience as far as I can tell. I just know the UD grads are all über-conservative.)
"In his strong defense of majority-rule and the wisdom of the “average man”, Kendall swam against the tide of intellectual life in the early and mid 20th century. Chastened by the rise of totalitarian mass movements, intellectuals on both the left and right during these years increasingly questioned the wisdom of unchecked democracy."
So this is the guy the 'Republic not a Democracy' guys are all supposedly freaked out by. And he's a ... conservative. Funny how that works.
"As should be clear, the composition of that majority is white: Kendall was a theorist of white majoritarianism, believing in mass democracy so long as the electorate was safely and overwhelmingly white people. "
It sounds like he was a believer in reheated Jacksonianism and there's ... not much else to it. Jackson, of course, even managed to get him slapped with the nickname 'King Andrew' given his tendency to finery and constant anger at lèse majesté against himself.
elm
one suspects that the entire of National Review could be condensed down to an 8-page pamphlet - and there would be leftover pages
Ignoring the rise of the Brahmin Left It made me laugh when when said you were "classless"
And of course you've said next to nothing about Palestine, a conquest founded in racism.
It's Piketty
---In the 1950s-1960s, the vote for left-wing (socialist-labour-democratic) parties was associated with lower education and lower income voters. It has gradually become associated with higher education voters, giving rise to a “multiple-elite” party system in the 2000s-2010s: high-education elites now vote for the “left”, while high-income/high-wealth elites still vote for the “right” (though less and less so).
The paper argues that this can contribute to explain rising inequality and the lack of democratic response to it, as well as the rise of “populism”, as low-income, low-education voters might feel left behind.---
I had read my Garry Wills a while ago. Kendall was not much of an inventor. I'd call him more of a censor. He merely adopted bog-standard antisemitism, Americanized it with racism, and abstracted out the word "Jew." And that is pretty much the essence of Trumpism.
"Even in his lifetime, Kendall was hardly a famous figure, although the cognoscenti would recognize his formative influence on figures like William F. Buckley and L. Brent Bozell and, through them, the larger American right. "
I honestly wonder if I've read the guy, given that while I don't remember him, I did live pretty close to UD for decades. (And barely heard of it locally, unlike SMU (the supposed 'Oxford of the South' - very much a hermetic experience as far as I can tell. I just know the UD grads are all über-conservative.)
"In his strong defense of majority-rule and the wisdom of the “average man”, Kendall swam against the tide of intellectual life in the early and mid 20th century. Chastened by the rise of totalitarian mass movements, intellectuals on both the left and right during these years increasingly questioned the wisdom of unchecked democracy."
So this is the guy the 'Republic not a Democracy' guys are all supposedly freaked out by. And he's a ... conservative. Funny how that works.
"As should be clear, the composition of that majority is white: Kendall was a theorist of white majoritarianism, believing in mass democracy so long as the electorate was safely and overwhelmingly white people. "
It sounds like he was a believer in reheated Jacksonianism and there's ... not much else to it. Jackson, of course, even managed to get him slapped with the nickname 'King Andrew' given his tendency to finery and constant anger at lèse majesté against himself.
elm
one suspects that the entire of National Review could be condensed down to an 8-page pamphlet - and there would be leftover pages
Ignoring the rise of the Brahmin Left It made me laugh when when said you were "classless"
And of course you've said next to nothing about Palestine, a conquest founded in racism.
It's Piketty
---In the 1950s-1960s, the vote for left-wing (socialist-labour-democratic) parties was associated with lower education and lower income voters. It has gradually become associated with higher education voters, giving rise to a “multiple-elite” party system in the 2000s-2010s: high-education elites now vote for the “left”, while high-income/high-wealth elites still vote for the “right” (though less and less so).
The paper argues that this can contribute to explain rising inequality and the lack of democratic response to it, as well as the rise of “populism”, as low-income, low-education voters might feel left behind.---
2018- https://wid.world/news-article/new-paper-on-rising-inequality-and-the-changing-structure-of-political-conflict-wid-world-working-paper-2018-7/
2021- https://wid.world/news-article/changing-political-cleavages-in-21-western-democracies/
I had read my Garry Wills a while ago. Kendall was not much of an inventor. I'd call him more of a censor. He merely adopted bog-standard antisemitism, Americanized it with racism, and abstracted out the word "Jew." And that is pretty much the essence of Trumpism.
Fascinating look at a figure I’d never heard about.