Disappointment shifted nativist targets to vaguer enemies

Evidence

Thus, instead of crippling the force of 100 per cent Americanism, the discouragements of 1919-1920 broadened the fears which it expressed and turned it against enemies vaguer and more elusive than either the German or the Bolshevik. — John Higham, Strangers in the Land, 1626

Categorization

• XREF: Bear this against the reader’s question of whether solidarity decays or manufactures new enemies when the threat disappears — it manufactures. — connects to: Generic anti-foreign feelings rerouted onto new targets when old enemies failed — John Higham, Strangers in the Land: Patterns of…, 517; Nativist fears persist in stunted form rather than vanish when dormant — John Higham, Strangers in the Land: Patterns of…, 170; The enemy is derivative and potential rather than primary and natural (+3 more)

Broader Connections

• Nativist fears persist in stunted form rather than vanish when dormant #expands (0.82) — John Higham, Strangers in the Land, 170
• The enemy is derivative and potential rather than primary and natural #expands (0.78)
• Failed official coercion pushed nativism back toward racial and religious targets #complicates (0.75) — John Higham, Strangers in the Land, 1807
• Ambiguous prejudice inflicts a torment of chronic uncertainty on its targets #expands (0.72)
• A vague umbrella term like revulsion summarizes unstated negativity #corroborates (0.70) — Cristian Tileagă, The Nature of Prejudice, 542