At the top, Alan Hostetter at a pro-Trump rally in Santa Ana, California (November 9, 2020.) Alan Hostetter, a former Orange County police chief, faces several criminal charges, including a charge of conspiracy, in connection with the events at the nation's capitol building on January 6, 2021.
At the bottom, Richard Hofstadter, at Columbia University, in an otherwise undated photo from the 1960s. A well-known, mid-20th century historian and writer, Richard Hofstadter's memorable essays include
The Paranoid Style in American Politics (1965) and
American Violence (1970.)
These photographs and captions were meant to be included with the Original Post, where the two men are connected because of the phonetic similarity of their surnames.
"Ex-La Habra police chief Alan Hostetter, 5 others charged in Jan. 6 Capitol riot"
Emery, Cain and Rokos for the Orange Country Register; June 10, 2021.
https://www.ocregister.com/...-jan-6-capitol-riot/"Sean Wilentz: Richard Hofstadter and the 'paranoid style' as an American phenomenon"
An interview with Sean Wilentz, archived in the Library of America and dated September 15, 2020--a kind of foreshadowing of the 2020 national and presidential election cycle that was about to come to a dramatic denouement in the months immediately following this interview.https://www.loa.org/news-an...-american-phenomenon[This message has been edited by rinselberg (edited 06-19-2021).]