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White supremacist violence, QAnon, the MAGA movement--how did the United States get to where we are today? This enduring work offers a panoramic view of right-wing populism in the United States from the Colonial period through the 20th century. Chip Berlet and Matthew N. Lyons show how anti-elitist rhetoric, conspiracy theories, and ethnic scapegoating have influenced mainstream politics and culture throughout our history, far more than most Americans realize. The book examines the Jacksonians, the Ku Klux Klan, and a host of Cold War nationalist cliques, and relates them to the electoral campaigns of Patrick Buchanan, the militancy of the Posse Comitatus, the culture wars of the Christian Right, Clinton-era conspiracy theories, and more. Combining vivid description and incisive analysis, Berlet and Lyons explain how large numbers of disaffected Americans have long embraced right-wing populism in a misguided attempt to challenge power relations in U.S. society. The book offers a prescient perspective on the dangers that right-wing populism poses to our political system and to the goals of equality and social justice.
Winner--Outstanding Book Award, Gustavus Myers Center for the Study of Bigotry and Human Rights in North America
Winner--Outstanding Book Award, Gustavus Myers Center for the Study of Bigotry and Human Rights in North America
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Acknowledgments
- Contents
- Introduction
- 1. Rebellious Colonizers: Bacon’s Rebellion and the American Revolution
- 2 The Real People: Antimasonry, Jacksonianism, and Anti-Catholic Nativism
- 3. A Great Mongrel Military Despotism: The First Ku Klux Klan and the Anti-Chinese Crusade
- 4. Barbarians and Plunder Leagues: Theodore Roosevelt and the Progressives
- 5. 100 Percent Americanism: World War I–Era Repression and the Second Ku Klux Klan
- 6. The Industrialist as Producer: Henry Ford’s Corporate Empire
- 7. Driving Out the Money Changers: Fascist Politics in the New Deal Era
- 8. From New Deal to Cold War: Political Scapegoating and Business Conflict from the 1930s to the 1950s
- 9. The Pillars of U.S. Populist Conspiracism: The John Birch Society and the Liberty Lobby
- 10. From Old Right to New Right: Godless Communism, Civil Rights, and Secular Humanism
- 11. Culture Wars and Political Scapegoats: Gender, Sexuality, and Race
- 12. Dominion Theology and Christian Nationalism: Hard-Line Ideology versus Pragmatism
- 13. New Faces for White Nationalism: Reframing Supremacist Narratives
- 14. Battling the New World Order: Patriots and Armed Militias
- 15. The Vast Clinton Conspiracy Machine: The Hard Right on the Center Stage
- 16. The New Millennium: Demonization, Conspiracism, and Scapegoating in Transition
- Conclusions
- Notes
- Appendix A: Sectors of the U.S. Right Active in the Year 2000
- Appendix B: The Producerist Narrative Used in Right-Wing Populism
- Bibliography
- Index
- About the Authors
- About Guilford Press
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