Elite restrictionists drove both the preparedness and anti-hyphenate movements
Evidence
The two causes, each full of alarm at the weakness of the republic, naturally supplemented one another. … Certainly it was not accidental that the first Congressional advocates of preparedness were Augustus P. Gardner and Henry Cabot Lodge, the most fervent immigration restrictionists in politics in the Northeast, nor was it happenstance that the principal preparedness societies, the National Security League and the American Defense Society, evolved into leading instruments of wartime nativism. — John Higham, Strangers in the Land, 1177
Categorization
- XREF: Shows the institutional carriers of manufactured-enemy politics: the same elite networks (Lodge, Gardner, National Security League) ran militarism and anti-immigrant restrictionism. — connects to: Restricting immigration redirected eugenicists and energized assimilationist cultural work — Ibram X. Kendi, Stamped from the Beginning: The…, 835; Elite avant-garde rejection of liberal hypocrisy enabled attraction to totalitarian movements; Even 1880s restrictionists still believed assimilation would eventually succeed. — John Higham, Strangers in the Land: Patterns of…, 379
- SEED: Possible angle: tracing how ‘preparedness’/‘national defense’ rhetoric in history repeatedly launders restrictionism and internal-enemy politics.
Broader Connections
- Restricting immigration redirected eugenicists and energized assimilationist cultural work
#expands(0.80) — Ibram X. Kendi, Stamped from the Beginning, 835 - Elite avant-garde rejection of liberal hypocrisy enabled attraction to totalitarian movements
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