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Right-Wing Populism in America

Too Close for Comfort

By: Chip Berlet,Matthew N. Lyons

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Right-Wing Populism in America

Too Close for Comfort

By: Chip Berlet,Matthew N. Lyons

Right-wing militias and other antigovernment organizations have received heightened public attention since the Oklahoma City bombing. While such groups are often portrayed as marginal extremists, the values they espouse have influenced mainstream politics and culture far more than most Americans realize. This important volume offers an in-depth look at the historical roots and current landscape of right-wing populism in the United States. Illuminated is the potent combination of anti-elitist rhetoric, conspiracy theories, and ethnic scapegoating that has fueled many political movements from the colonial period to the present day. The book examines the Jacksonians, the Ku Klux Klan, and a host of Cold War nationalist cliques, and relates them to the evolution of contemporary electoral campaigns of Patrick Buchanan, the militancy of the Posse Comitatus and the Christian Identity movement, and an array of millennial sects. Combining vivid description and incisive analysis, Berlet and Lyons show how large numbers of disaffected Americans have embraced right-wing populism in a misguided attempt to challenge power relationships in U.S. society. Highlighted are the dangers these groups pose for the future of our political system and the hope of progressive social change. Winner--Outstanding Book Award, Gustavus Myers Center for the Study of Bigotry and Human Rights in North America

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Guilford Publications

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1462528384

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Right-Wing Populism in America

Too Close for Comfort

By: Chip Berlet,Matthew N. Lyons

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Digital Media Strategies of the Far Right in Europe and the United States

By: Patricia Anne Simpson,Helga Druxes

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Digital Media Strategies of the Far Right in Europe and the United States

By: Patricia Anne Simpson,Helga Druxes

With the leverage of digital reproducibility, historical messages of hate are finding new recipients with breathtaking speed and scope. The rapid growth in popularity of right-wing extremist groups in response to transnational economic crises underscores the importance of examining in detail the language and political mobilization strategies of the New Right. In Europe, for example, populist right-wing activists organized around an anti-immigration agenda are becoming more vocal, providing pushback against the increase in migration flows from North Africa and Eastern Europe and countering support for integration with a categorical rejection of multiculturalism. In the United States, anti-immigration sentiment provides a rallying point for political and personal agendas that connect the rhetoric of borders with national, racial, and security issues. Digital Media Strategies of the Far Right in Europe and the United States is an effort to examine and understand these issues, informed by the conviction that an interdisciplinary and transnational approach can allow productive comparison of far-right propaganda strategies in Europe and the United States. With a special emphasis on performing ideology in the far-right music scene, on violent anti-immigrant stances, and on the far right’s skillful creation and manipulation of virtual communities, the contributions foreground the cultural shibboleths that are exchanged among far-right supporters on the Internet, which serve to generate a sense of group belonging and the illusion of power far greater than the known numbers of neo-Nazis in any one country might suggest. Moreover, with attention to transatlantic right-wing movements and their use of particularly digital media, the essays in this volume put pressure on the similarities among the various national agents, while accommodating differences in the virtual and sometimes violent identities created and nurtured online.

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Lexington Books

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0739198823

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9780739198827

Too Close for Comfort

Right-wing Populism, Scapegoating, and Fascist Potentials in U.S. Political Traditions

By: Chip Berlet,Matthew Nemiroff Lyons

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Right-wing Populism, Scapegoating, and Fascist Potentials in U.S. Political Traditions

By: Chip Berlet,Matthew Nemiroff Lyons

This timely and comprehensive book analyzes how reactionary movements from Pat Buchanan's presidential campaign to armed militia activity are the natural outgrowth of populist and fascist seeds sown throughout U.S. history. Too Close for Comfort argues that over time, right-wing, anti-democratic movements have used the same set of tools to reach out to disgruntled Americans and discredit progressive ideas: demagoguery, scapegoating, prejudice, and conspiracy theories about a secret elite manipulating the government, economy, and culture. This tradition, Berlet and Lyons warn, offers fertile soil for the growth of fascist pseudo-radicalism and "populist" facism in contemporary movements that oppose the status quo but are not in the least progressive.

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0896085104

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Right-Wing Populism in America

Right-Wing Populism in America

Right-Wing Populism in America

Right-Wing Populism in America

Digital Media Strategies of the Far Right in Europe and the United States

Digital Media Strategies of the Far Right in Europe and the United States

Too Close for Comfort

Too Close for Comfort

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