The misuse of the 'the paranoid style in American politics'

In PopMatters Jeff Carter points out how the famous concept of historian Richard Hofstadter is misused in JFK discussions.

"As Hofstadter notes, there is no real correlation between largely evidence-free witch hunts like the McCarthyist trials in the ‘50s and substantive critiques of the Warren Report, such as Sylvia Meagher’s Accessories After the Fact …