far right

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  1/21/2021
  

  Charlottesville Inspired Biden to Run. Now It Has a Message for Him

  People who lived through the 2017 white supremacist invasion of Charlottesville warn that there can't be any unity without accountability. 

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• SOURCE: The Atlantic
  1/19/2021
  

  France Knows How This Ends

  by James McAuley

  "What is especially useful to remember about the Dreyfus affair now is the point of no return it represented, the repugnant embrace of lies by one half of society, educated people who were not ignorant but who had simply ceased to care."

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• SOURCE: The New Yorker
  1/18/2021
  

  The Long Prologue to the Capitol Hill Riot

  Historian Kathleen Belew notes the continuities in far-right and white power culture that have endured since the 1970s and were on display in the Capitol riot. 

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  1/13/2021
  

  Trump Is the Republican Party’s Past and Its Future

  by Lisa McGirr

  It's not a question of whether Trump voters are driven by racism, nativism or conspiracy theories, or by "economic anxiety." Republican economic policies have created inequality and instability that the party can only paper over by encouraging resentment, suspicion and hostility. It won't end with Trump's departure.

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• SOURCE: The Conversation
  1/8/2021
  

  A Scholar of American Anti-Semitism Explains the Hate Symbols Present During the US Capitol Riot

  by Jonathan D. Sarna

  The presence of conspiracy theorists and overt and coded anti-Semitic messages at the Capitol riot shows that far right ideology continues to target Jews in a conspiratorial, eliminationist worldview.

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• SOURCE: Informed Comment
  1/12/2021
  

  The Armed Accelerationists are Coming: Neo-Nazis and Boogaloo Bois Plan Another Insurrection Jan. 20

  by Juan Cole

  Far-right groups involved in the Capitol riots plan further actions as part of a strategy of "accelerationism" to create spectacular episodes of violence to polarize society.

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  1/9/2021
  

  The American Abyss

  by Timothy Snyder

  "The responsibility for Trump’s push to overturn an election must be shared by a very large number of Republican members of Congress."

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• SOURCE: The Atlantic
  1/11/2021
  

  The Gun-Rights Movement Fed America’s Insurrectionist Fever Dreams

  by Firmin DeBrabander

  "The gun-rights movement cleared the path for insurrection. It blew a hole in the rule of law—and Donald Trump’s would-be soldiers clamored through it. And then scaled the walls of Congress." 

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• SOURCE: MSNBC
  1/11/2021
  

  How the Pro-Trump Mob Fits in the History of U.S. Lynching

  Kathleen Belew joins Nikole Hannah-Jones on Joy Ann Reid's show to discuss the rise of the far right movement that drove the Capitol rioting on January 6. 

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• SOURCE: Los Angeles Times
  1/8/2021
  

  ‘The Turner Diaries’ Didn’t Just Inspire The Capitol Attack. It Warns Us What Might Be Next

  Historian Kathleen Belew discusses the centrality of the 1978 novel to the far right and its possible use as a blueprint for future attacks.

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  1/7/2021
  

  The Far Right Told Us What It Had Planned. We Didn’t Listen

  The author of a book on white nationalist women argues that grievances voiced by Wednesday's Capitol building mob have long been clearly delineated in white supremacist literature. 

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• SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
  1/7/2021
  

  Trump’s Supporters Think They’re Being Patriotic. And That’s The Problem

  by Christine Adams

  The September Massacres of 1792 finished the overthrow of the French monarchy and paved the way to the Reign of Terror; the significance of conspiracy theory, rumor, and identification of enemies of the people were echoed in Wednesday's Capitol riots (though with, as yet, less bloodshed). 

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• SOURCE: Democracy
  12/22/2020
  

  Cleansing Ourselves of Trumpism

  by Jim Sleeper

  Donald Trump's election revealed, rather than launched, the degradation of American political norms and institutions through decades of the Republicans' lurch to the right and the Democrats' abandonment of the common good. 

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• SOURCE: The Atlantic
  12/21/2020
  

  Engaging With Trump’s Die-Hard Supporters Isn’t Productive

  by Tom Nichols

  "The Trump loyalists who still cling to conspiracy theories and who remain part of a cult of personality should be deprived of the attention they seek."

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• SOURCE: ArcDigital
  12/20/2020
  

  The Americans Who Long for Civil War: Should We Take these Big Talkers Seriously?

  by L.D. Burnett

  The chances that Trumpist die-hards will secede are nil. But the spirit animating this talk is still toxic and can't be ignored. 

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• SOURCE: Inside Higher Ed
  12/8/2020
  

  When I Was Trolled, My Institution Got It Right

  by Susan M. Shaw

  As faculty work to engage the public more directly through social media and journalistic outlets, the potential increases for politically motivated trolling and outrage campaigns attacking faculty. Here's how institutions can support the intellectual freedom of their faculty without caving to outrage campaigns. 

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• SOURCE: Voice of America
  11/17/2020
  

  German Historians on Frontlines of Politics

  German historians have faced lawsuits for writing about World War II-era crimes by the Wehrmacht, part of a growing culture war in which right-wing Germans seek to deny or diminish the Holocaust and Nazi war crimes.

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  11/7/2020
  

  Confronting the Damage of Trumpism

  by David W. Blight

  To rebuild a society and a political system, we must admit that they are broken. Institutionally, America is broken.

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• SOURCE: Chicago Tribune
  10/30/2020
  

  Exposing the ‘Disguise’: UChicago Historian Kathleen Belew Spotlights the Rising White Power Movement

  “I think if people really understood and grappled with the fact that (Oklahoma City) was the work of a widespread terrorist movement that was deeply organized, had people in every region of the country,” she says in the interview, “I think that people would treat it very, very differently."

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• SOURCE: Politico
  10/29/2020
  

  The Secret Power of White Supremacy — and How Anti-Racists Can Take It Back

  by Cord J. Whitaker

  The far right has long used chivalric language to advocate for white supremacy and the forcible defense of social hierarchy. A medievalist explains why their perception of history is wrong and how to respond.