far right

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• SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
  9/28/2022
  

  Far Right Presence in Law Enforcement is Scary, but Not New

  by Anna Duensing

  Edwin Walker oversaw the National Guard's enforcement of integration in Little Rock out of duty. He held a personal repugnance of integration and soon traded his military career for the far right. Today's Oath Keepers are his political descendants.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  9/28/2022
  

  Joshua Tait: Will Thiel-Backed Extremists Torpedo GOP Senate Hopes?

  Scholar of the right Joshua Tait discusses the prospects of JD Vance and Blake Masters with Post columnist Greg Sargent. Can they put a moderate face on full-blown Trumpism? 

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• SOURCE: New York Magazine
  9/13/2022
  

  Chait: GOP Door is Now Open to Antisemites

  Since World War II, antisemitic conspiracists have been persona non grata in the party. Now, as the Republicans seek to govern with a shrinking share of the electorate, they're taking any help they can get. 

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• 9/11/2022
  

  The Authoritarian Personality and the Rising Far Right

  by Sam Ben-Meir

  This moment of peril for American democracy calls for a return to the diagnosis presented in "The Authoritarian Personality," 1950s effort to develop a social-psychological profile of the people likely to embrace fascism. 

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  9/8/2022
  

  It's Not Trump's GOP, it's Pat Buchanan's

  by Nicole Hemmer

  Republicans have come around to Pat Buchanan's vision of a hard-right, pessimistic and grievance-driven party. The question now is whether they will soften that vision in pursuit of a majority of voters, or try to keep power as a minority party. 

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• SOURCE: MSNBC
  8/25/2022
  

  Bannon's Threat: An Army of Christian Nationalists

  by Anthea Butler

  As conservative churches feel free to intervene directly in politics, will the midterms be swayed by an army of evangelical poll-watchers and door-knockers? 

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• SOURCE: The Baffler
  8/18/2022
  

  Ailing Empires: The Rhetoric of Decline in Britain and the US

  by Jed Esty

  If the US is following behind Great Britain in experiencing the strains of a collapsing empire, can Americans, their leaders, and their thinkers learn any lessons from the comparison and make a post-imperial society that is more humane and less nasty? 

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  8/25/2022
  

  Containing the Far Right Means Explaining Why a Democratic, Nonviolent Society is Better

  Nicole Hemmer and Post columnist Greg Sargent discuss the echoes of the 1990s and Oklahoma City in the rise in violent rhetoric on the right and what can be done to check it. 

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• SOURCE: The Bulwark
  8/22/2022
  

  White Christian Nationalism is Out in the Open Now

  by Annika Brockschmidt and Thomas Lecaque

  The boundaries of acceptable discussions of the relationship of religion and civil authority and citizenship have shifted on the right as political candidates now treat the label "Christian nationalist" with defiance instead of denial, and deploy a mythical version of the past to justify their views.

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• SOURCE: The Atlantic
  8/15/2022
  

  The New Era of Political Violence is Here

  by Tom Nichols

  Rather than civil war, the emerging threat in America is heavily-armed individuals informed by mass delusion. 

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• SOURCE: Texas Monthly
  8/8/2022
  

  At CPAC, Trump Presents a Violent Blueprint for Taking Power

  The combination of persecution and rage on display in CPAC rhetoric by the former president and others suggests the right granting itself permission to take steps including violence to take power if the ballot fails. 

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• SOURCE: Texas Public Radio
  8/1/2022
  

  Edward Miller on the Resurfacing of Bircher Conspiratorialism on the Right Today

  Today, the society itself and its beliefs are growing. North Texas is the center of its resurgence. Welch’s legacy continues to live on in modern day conservatism.

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• SOURCE: Texas Observer
  7/21/2022
  

  The John Birch Society's North Texas Renaissance

  The ideas and conspiratorial mindset central to Bircherism have become part of mainstream conservatism, with booming popularity in the Dallas-Fort Worth suburbs. Historian Edward H. Miller explains the group's ideas have been more tenacious than the organization itself. 

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• SOURCE: CNN
  7/21/2022
  

  Attacks on Drag Queen Story Hours Part of Bigger Reactionary Project

  Historian Thomas Zimmer says that the wave of accusations that drag performers are "grooming" children for sexual abuse is part of a broader reactionary project that seeks to reinforce multiple rigid social hierarchies and put straight white men at the top. 

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• SOURCE: We've Got Issues Podcast
  7/22/2022
  

  Thomas Zimmer: Slide Toward Authoritarianism on Right is Accelerating

  Historian Thomas Zimmer tells Joshua Holland that there is a consensus among experts that American democracy is teetering on the brink of collapse -- but there is a reason for hope.

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• 7/3/2022
  

  The Edmund Burke Foundation Betrays its Namesake and Threatens Liberty with "National Conservatism"

  by Thomas Lecaque and J.L. Tomlin

  The Edmund Burke Society has claimed the mantle of the foundational conservative in its recent manifesto, but what the document articulates is a blueprint for an authoritarian, theocratic society that owes more to European fascism.

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• SOURCE: MSNBC
  6/15/2022
  

  Belew to Maddow: Fascist Groups are "Nationwide Paramilitary Army"

  Kathleen Belew, an expert on white nationalist paramilitary groups, talks with Rachel Maddow about why individual incidents with racist extremist groups should be seen as part of a single, larger groundswell.

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• SOURCE: Freethinker
  6/14/2022
  

  Is the Right Now Post-Religious? If Only!

  by Jacques Berlinerblau

  A high-profile op-ed by Nate Hochman obfuscates the continued significance of strains of Christian nationalism to the rising far right and falsely claims this movement is a secular one. 

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• SOURCE: CNN
  6/15/2022
  

  "Patriot Front" Plan to Attack Pride Shows Connections of White Supremacy and Anti-LGBTQ Politics

  The arrest of neonazis in Idaho who planned an attack on a Pride event echoes a 1937 raid on a Miami gay nightclub by the KKK, says historian Julio Capo, Jr. 

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• SOURCE: HuffPost
  6/13/2022
  

  The Families of Victims of Anti-Abortion Violence Face a Post-Roe World

  The antiabortion movement has always included a violent, terroristic element. How will the pending Supreme Court decision influence its possible revival?