A solidarity crusade collapses when its manufactured threat vanishes

Evidence

Yet funds were less basic to the vigor of the Americanization movement than were fears. Above all, the crusade came to an end because the collapse of the Big Red Scare dried up its emotional wellsprings. Once the specter of an imminent Bolshevik revolution dissolved, the crusade lost all urgency, lost, in fact, its whole immediate and pressing object. — John Higham, Strangers in the Land, 1579

Categorization

• XREF: Evidence directly on reader’s question: does solidarity decay when external threat disappears? Here the Americanization crusade did decay for lack of an object. — connects to: Shared prejudice threats build protective ingroup solidarity — , Rudman, Laurie A - On the Nature of…, 952; Countercultural threats get defanged by commercial absorption — Sheldon Solomon, Jeff Greenberg, Tom Pyszczynski, The Worm at the Core: On the Role of…, 501; Racial restriction’s victory deflated the manufactured solidarity that had sustained it (+4 more)
• QUESTION: Compare passage 1580 where nativism persists by switching from ideology to race — so the answer is neither pure decay nor persistence, but re-framing. Worth reconciling.

Broader Connections

• Racial restriction’s victory deflated the manufactured solidarity that had sustained it #exemplifies (0.88)
• The nationalist ideology needs a manufactured enemy to mobilize #corroborates (0.85) — Neil DeVotta, Sinhalese Buddhist Nationalist Ideology, 303
• Shared prejudice threats build protective ingroup solidarity #expands (0.82) — , Rudman, Laurie A - On the Nature of…, 952
• Groups reattached war-cultivated solidarity to new enemies after the old one vanished #expands (0.78) — John Higham, Strangers in the Land, 1324
• Threatened group unity is maintained through a manufactured image of internal subversion #expands (0.75) — Nadim N. Rouhana and Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian, When Politics Are Sacralized, 1244
• Countercultural threats get defanged by commercial absorption #complicates (0.72) — Sheldon Solomon, Jeff Greenberg, Tom Pyszczynski, The Worm at the Core, 501