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SOURCE: Dissent
5/23/2023
Maddow's Documentary Follows American Nazis in the 1940s—Does it Miss a Bigger Danger?
by Nelson Lichtenstein
The legal and law enforcement response to the rise of pro-Nazi groups in pre-WWII America was part of a growing national security state that would be used against dissent from the left and which the far right today seeks to use as a weapon.
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SOURCE: Religion Dispatches
5/25/2023
Jeff Sharlet on the Intersectional Erotics of Fascism
by Annika Brockschmidt
In an interview with historian Annika Brockschmidt, journalist Jeff Sharlet discusses his new book on the "slow civil war" in America and the need to understand how the far right is sustained by the pleasure of ceasing to resist the tide of anger and instead being carried by it.
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SOURCE: The Bulwark
5/16/2023
With the New Twitter, the Right Wing Disinfo is Coming from the Top
by Donald Moynihan
"Musk often refers to himself as moderate or independent, but he routinely treats far-right fringe figures as people worth taking seriously—and, more troublingly, as reliable sources of information."
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SOURCE: Open Democracy
5/16/2023
What I Saw when I Snuck In to the British National Conservatism Conference
by Seth Thévoz
If a group of fervent young British conservatives were packed into a wood-paneled room in Westminster with the freedom to say what the pleased, what would a party-crashing historian and journalist hear?
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SOURCE: The Hill
5/11/2023
Proud Boys' Convictions for Seditious Conspiracy Won't End the Far Right Threat
by Tom Mockaitis
Despite the conviction of leading organizers of the January 6 attack on the Capitol (which aimed at overturning Joe Biden's election), the extreme right will remain a threat, partly because of the flourishing of online channels for hate and partly because the Republican Party has framed the insurrection as legitimate political expression.
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SOURCE: Jacobin
4/30/2023
Matthew Dallek: The Birchers Won By Losing
The defeat of Barry Goldwater in 1964 was supposed to mark the demise of the conspiratorial right. Matthew Dallek's book explains how the fringe rose to dominate the Republican Party in 2024, in part because of the shortsightedness of liberal elites.
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SOURCE: The Conversation
4/25/2023
Kathleen Belew: "Lone Wolf" Label Obscures Key Networks of Far Right Extremism
While hardly representative of all veterans, the far right in the 20th and 21st centuries has actively recruited former military members into their networks.
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SOURCE: The Atlantic
4/24/2023
Does Tucker's Path Lead to (Alex) Jonestown?
Like Alex Jones, Tucker Carlson's success hinged on smuggling far-right conspiratorial views into the mainstream through incredulity and absurdity to encourage viewers to accept an alternate, grievance-driven reality.
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SOURCE: New York Times
4/19/2023
How Fox News Helped Break the American Right
by Matthew Dallek
The Republican Party has long struggled to keep extremists within its ranks at bay, if partly for political reasons. But the rise of Fox News has destroyed the guardrails older generations of mainstream conservatives set up against conspiracists, hatemongers, and bigots.
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SOURCE: CNN
3/24/2023
Trump's Choice of Waco is Waving the Bloody Shirt to the Far Right
by Nicole Hemmer
By rallying in Waco at the 30th anniversary of the Branch Davidian siege and killings, Trump has signaled to the far right and the militia movement that he's their candidate.
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SOURCE: The New Yorker
3/27/2023
How "Christian" is Christian Nationalism?
Historian Kathryn Gin Lum, among other scholars, helps to shed light on the paradox that those who believe America is a "Christian nation" hold that view with greater militancy even as religious observance declines.
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SOURCE: New York Times
3/1/2023
Edsall: Is Trump Trapping the GOP in Conspiratorial Madness?
Ron DeSantis can bolster his standing with the right by governing. Donald Trump, still the leader of the party, must invoke conspiracies and cartoonishly evil enemies. Historian Jeffrey Herf helps Thomas Edsall understand if there's an off-ramp.
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SOURCE: The Atlantic
2/10/2023
Why is Italy's Far Right Embracing Dante?
Italy's original Fascists embraced Dante as a marker of national chauvinism, and a prophet of authoritarianism; today's far right has renewed their enthusiasm for the poet.
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SOURCE: The New Republic
1/31/2023
How the Right Got Waco Wrong
by Paul Renfro
Historian Paul Renfro reviews Kevin Cook's new book, which seeks to explain how the 1993 siege of the Branch Davidian cult's Waco compound became a totem for the right while also decrying the aggressive law enforcement tactics that escalated the situation toward mass death.
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SOURCE: HuffPost
1/29/2023
Inside the Neonazi Homeschool Community
"A concerted, decades-long campaign by right-wing Christian groups to deregulate home schooling has afforded parents wide latitude in how they teach their kids — even if that means indoctrinating them with explicit fascism."
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SOURCE: TomDispatch
1/29/2023
The Real Failures of January 6
by Karen J. Greenberg
Despite surface similarities, the attack on Brazil's government buildings earlier this month differed from January 6, 2021 in one key respect: the transfer of presidential power had already been accomplished. The contrast is sobering—for America.
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SOURCE: The Baffler
1/24/2023
Bolsonaro's Long Shadow
by Nara Roberta Silva
The recently departed president is only the latest, and probably not the last, avatar of antidemocratic impulses in Brazilian politics, generally reflected by the elite recruiting the anxieties of the middle class to thwart broader social rights for the nation's poor.
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SOURCE: New York Review of Books
1/25/2023
Victimhood and Vengeance: The Reactionary Roots of Christian Nationalism
by Linda Greenhouse
Three books offer illuminating and distressing insight on the eruption of Christian nationalism, a "deep story" in American cultural history that, when its adherents feel denied the power they expect, guides potentially violent vengeance.
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SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
1/18/2023
The Common Evangelical Roots of Insurrection in America and Brazil
by Raimundo Barreto and João B. Chaves
A century of international evangelical network-building and theological development have brought militant Christian nationalism to the forefront of right-wing politics in both nations.
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SOURCE: Jacobin
1/11/2023
Deport Bolsonaro
by Ben Burgis
The former Brazilian president has no right or entitlement to live in Florida while avoiding accountability for crimes in Brazil committed both before and after his losing campaign for reelection.
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