Mallory's Reviews > The New Hate: A History of Fear and Loathing on the Populist Right

It really shouldn't be much of a surprise that I agreed with most of what was in here, but I would like to point out that calling modern conservative bigotry "the New Hate" is somewhat inaccurate, as it really seems to be made up of older hates that have been repainted for a different time. Take Henry Ford's concern about Jewish rabbinical courts in New York, bring it forward a few decades, and it becomes the anti-Shariah movement advocated by Frank "Eyebrows" Gaffney and Pamela "Shrieking Harpy" Geller. Take concern about eastern European immigrants who still spoke their mother tongues, bring it forward a century or so, and it becomes the innumerable brigade of morons blathering on about how we speak English in America, while managing to completely forget their ancestors, who, odds are, didn't speak English when they arrived in America.

(In case you hadn't noticed, I'm not a big fan of them.)