"This is what he said to me in an email:
"'In the history of the modern right, producerism (which is the core of populist ideology) has almost always been linked with racism. Wallace and Reagan (and many others) appealed to white wage-earners by attacking pro-busing judges and liberal pols who they charged were taking the people's money and wasting it on lazy minorities. The racial undercurrent never lay far from the surface.'"
Adam Serwer at The American Prospect asks Michael Kazin to respond to David Brooks's defense of anti-Obama protesters.
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