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What if George Kennan in the 1930's had actually published his draft book (he completed only two chapters and did not submit them for publication) advocating an "authoritarian state" (his term) and the disfranchisement of blacks, immigrants, and (most) women? https://books.google.com/books?id=8ymLk_6mSTMC&pg=PA41

As John Lewis Gaddis notes in his *George F. Kennan: An American Life,* p. 129,

"Three groups in particular would lose the right to vote. The first were 'aliens' [who didn't have the right to vote, anyway--DT] and 'naturalized citizens,' whose political influence, exercised through ethnic groups and the bosses that dominated them, had become disproportionate. They would be happier as the wards of a government they could respect than as 'fodder for the rent-sharks, ward-heelers and confidence men of the big cities.' The second was nonprofessional women, who were turning the country into a matriarchy through their domination of families, the economy, and national culture. They had failed to live up to the responsibilities their power entailed, placing it, rather, in the hands of 'lobbyists, charlatans and racketeers,' while themselves becoming 'delicate, high-strung, unsatisfied, flat-chested and flat-voiced.' Finally, there were 'negroes,' for whom seventy years of the 'nominal' right to vote had provided no benefits: their condition was 'the outstanding disgrace of American public life.' Removing the franchise from them would induce a greater responsibility for them on the part of the white population, because 'we are kinder to those who, like our children, are openly dependent on our kindness than to those who are nominally able to look after themselves.' [As Gaddis notes, this was an argument that had been used by southern slaveholders--DT] https://books.google.com/books?id=0IRL8u5yfYMC&pg=PT129

Kennan was of course very little-known in the 1930's, and his book if published would no doubt sink, seemingly without a trace. But when he became known for his espousal of containment in the late 1940's, what a weapon that book would be for his enemies!
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