Electoral Capitalism: The Party System in New York’s Gilded Age

Abstract

praise, and similar liberal arguments, Leary states, are “rooted in the common fallacy ... that an effective protest is, like a conversation or an opening statement in court, mainly a rhetorical exercise, meant to convince of something... . But a demonstration is not an argument, or at the very least it is not only that; there is, after all, a reason we call it a demonstration” (99). This is but a part of the goals in