Superior: The Return of Race Science

by Angela Saini

“I’ve spent a lot of time in the last decade paying attention to the politics of immigration in this country, which are obviously related to all of that in intimate ways, and which dominate our politics in some ways today,” Hurt tells me. He believes what happened in the past can happen again. “When Reagan came in, he didn’t have established party networks of personnel that the establishment figures in the party had. So he cast a very wide net that included a very diverse range of people, including people like Ralph Scott. Scott wasn’t, I think, representative of the sort of central policy thrust of the administration, but there was a lot of carelessness at the beginning of the Reagan administration that allowed these people to step into positions of greater or lesser significance . . . He was symptomatic of a broader problem of entryism to the Republican Party by people like this.”

Like Trump…