But social Darwinism has also been used to describe the applications of scientific (or really in most cases “scientific”) thinking to questions of population and race in ways that make a case ...

Hofstadter called social Darwinism a "phase in the history of conservative thought" and wrote: Darwinism was used to buttress the conservative outlook in two ways.

RFK Jr.'s rise reveals how pseudoscience paranoia now hold political power. Conceived in the late 19th century, the survival of the fittest ideas of Social Darwinism helped drive Nazi ideology.