The Paronoid Style of American Politics by Richard Hofstadter

"Although American political life has rarely been touched by the most acute varieties of class conflict, it has served again and again as an arena for uncommonly angry minds.  Today this fact is most evident on the extreme right wing, which has shown, particularly in the Goldwater movement, how much political leverage can be got out of the animosities and passions of a small minority.  Behind such movements there is a style of mind that has a long and varied history.  I call it the paranoid style..." 3

"The sins of these enemies of Christ, and Christians, are of numbers and degrees which mock account and description.  All that the malice and atheism of the Dragon, the cruelty and rapacity of the Beast, and the fraud and deceit of the false Prophet, can generate, or accomplish, swell the list.  No personal or national interest of man has been uninvaded; no impious sentiment, or action, against God has been spared...Shall we, my brethren, become partakers of these sins?  Shall we introduce them into our government, our schools, our families?  Shall our sons become the disciples of Voltaire, the dragons of Marat; or our daughters the concubines of the Illuminate? (Jedidiah Morse, 1789)

The basic elements of contemporary right wing thought: first: "...conspiracy,  running over more than a decade, and reaching its climax in Roosevelt's New Deal, to undermine free capitalism, to bring the economy under the direction of the federal government, and to pave the way for socialism or communism....many would agree with Frank Chodorov, the author of "The Income Tax: The Root of All Evil, that this campaign began with the passage of the income tax amendment to the constitution in 1913."
Second: "top government officialdom has been infiltrated by Communists [or socialists]" and third: "the country is infused with a network of communist agents [socialists, liberals], just as in the old days it was infiltrated by Jesuit agents, so that the whole apparatus of education, religion, the press, and the mass media are engaged in a common effort to paralyze the resistance of loyal Americans." 26-27