far right

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• SOURCE: The New Republic
  11/23/2021
  

  We All Live in the John Birch Society's World Now

  Edward Miller's new book presents the case that the John Birch Society was not a retrograde reactionary force but the vanguard of modern conservative culture war politics. 

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• SOURCE: The Guardian
  11/28/2021
  

  Joanne Freeman: Violent Rhetoric in Congress is Meant to Intimidate Enemies Into Silence

  "I suppose that’s what we’re going to see now; the person who does that kind of bullying and that kind of threatening gets a good degree of support for it."

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• SOURCE: Los Angeles Times
  11/17/2021
  

  Gosar's Video No Joke; Displays the Violent Impulses in the GOP

  by Jean Guerrero

  Jason Stanley offers context on the normalization of violence through political rhetoric. 

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• SOURCE: Los Angeles Times
  11/14/2021
  

  Can Universities Counter the Global Tide of Nationalism?

  by Emily J. Levine

  Nationalism and a growing rivalry with China have pushed some politicians to reconsider the openness of American universities to foreign students. The history of academic exchange suggests this may be a mistake. 

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• SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
  11/8/2021
  

  Extremism Didn't Begin with Trump, and Won't End with Him Either

  by Joseph Lowndes

  Pat Buchanan never succeeded in winning the Republican nomination, but he did as much as anyone to shape the politics of grievance and the image of beseiged white America that drives the party's base today. 

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• SOURCE: The Bulwark
  10/18/2021
  

  Piety, Patriotism, and Paranoia: What Today's Right Takes From the American Revolution

  by Thomas Lecaque and J.L. Tomlin

  "As much as we might like to think that these invocations of Revolutionary identity are a misappropriation, the truth is there is plenty of precedent in early American history for the disturbing ideas, intentions, and modes of thought seen on the far right today."

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  10/9/2021
  

  Spanish Right Seizes Conquistador Legacy in Political Culture Wars

  Spain's Popular Party condemned Pope Francis's recent call for Catholics in Mexico to revisit the nation's history to consider indigenous conquest. 

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• SOURCE: The Bulwark
  10/6/2021
  

  The Apocalypse Never Dies, It Just Gets Weirder

  by Thomas Lecaque

  "Not only has the apocalypticism of the last few years not died out, but things aren’t getting better." A historian considers the intensification of apocalyptic rhetoric in American evangelicalism, and its fusion with the Trumpist political movement.

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• SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
  9/24/2021
  

  Like the Confederates, it's Dangerous to Let the January 6th Losers Rewrite History

  by Shira Lurie

  The right's effort to recast the events of January 6 as a peaceful protest is a dangerous attempt at rewriting history. The ongoing mythology of the Confederacy shows it needs to be nipped in the bud. 

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• SOURCE: NPR
  9/26/2021
  

  Kathleen Belew Explains the White Supremacist "Great Replacement" Ideology

  NPR's Lulu Garcia-Navarro talks with Kathleen Belew, co-editor of "A Field Guide to White Supremacy" about Great Replacement Theory, also known as White Replacement Theory.

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  9/6/2021
  

  America's School Board Hearings are Getting Scary, but it's not the First Time

  "Public schools have long been an irresistible battleground for America’s culture warriors."

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• SOURCE: ABC News
  9/5/2021
  

  Liberal Portland has Long Been a Focal Point for the Far Right

  Both Portland's current image as a progressive city and Oregon's historical origins as an explicitly white supremacist state make the city a focal point for far right groups and white nationalists. 

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• SOURCE: CNN
  8/5/2021
  

  Why Tucker Carlson went to Hungary

  by Nicole Hemmer

  Tucker Carlson's PR visit to Orban's Hungary echoes the tribute paid by leaders of the American right to racist regimes in Rhodesia and South Africa in the 1970s, and reflect the ongoing fantasy of the right to rule free of constraints of law and democratic norms. 

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• SOURCE: The Atlantic
  8/12/2021
  

  When They Fantasize About Killing You, Believe Them

  by Hussein Ibish

  A veteran Middle East scholar warns that the rising violence of right-wing rhetoric in the US is an indicator of violence not far behind. 

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• SOURCE: The New Republic
  8/10/2021
  

  How the Far Right Weaponized America’s Democratic Roots

  by Joe Lowndes

  By steering away from overt white nationalism, the far right is able to engage a politics of white innocence and portray themselves as heirs to America's revolutionary heritage.

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• SOURCE: Heather Cox Richardson
  8/2/2021
  

  Letters from an American: The Rising Appeal of Hungary on the US Right

  by Heather Cox Richardson

  Tucker Carlson's fawning visit to Viktor Orban's Hungary, at a time when the right is mobilizing to subvert future American elections, is an ominous signal of the growing contempt for democracy on the right. 

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• SOURCE: WBUR
  7/27/2021
  

  Revisiting Portland a Year after the Rioting

  Elliott Young, a history professor and police reform advocate, is among the Portand residents interviewed about the state of the city a year after destructive protests over police violence drew the far left, far right, and federal law enforcement to the city. 

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• SOURCE: The Bulwark
  7/27/2021
  

  Should Rep. Lauren Boebert Visit Auschwitz after her Comparison of COVID Mandates to the Holocaust?

  "The Holocaust used to be out of bounds in political discourse because its enormity shocked the world—at least the free world. The original enforcer of this norm was conscience."

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• SOURCE: Chronicle of Higher Education
  6/28/2021
  

  The Far Right’s College Crusade

  "As some campus Republicans move toward the far right, what was previously an assault on higher education from groups based largely outside academe has become an inside job."

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  5/1/2021
  

  From the Past, a Chilling Warning About the Extremists of the Present

  “Do they want armed revolution and race war or are they seeking to enter politics?” said historian Kathleen Belew. “Do they want to burn it down or do they want to take over?”