When he asked, wide-eyed, “Why, then, could ideas so contrary to American ideals so easily take root?” he was posing a question that had been raised repeatedly over the century.12 And each time it was raised—whether by liberal Protestant ministers wondering why the pews were thinning out on Sundays, liberal humanists who regarded antifoundationalism as a European problem, or conservative commentators astonished that such an antidemocratic thinker was co-opted by the Left—the questioners were thrown off course by looking for elsewheres rather than into their own interest in Nietzsche. Bloom,
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