Trumping Democracy

From Reagan to the Alt-Right

Chip Berlet, Chip Berlet

• Editorial: Routledge
• Año: 2019
• ISBN:
  9781315438399
• Edición: 1
• Categoría: Politique et relations internationales
• Categoría: Politique

Since 2014, over 80 people have been killed in the United States of America by Right-wing terrorists. In 2016 Donald Trump was elected President of the United States and received substantial support from White nationalists.

This book explains the increase in violent White nationalism and Trump's ascendancy in the context of the backlash against the presidency of Barack Obama. It demonstrates how there is a dynamic relationship between the Republican Party, various Right-wing populist movements, and the Right. Far Right social movements, political campaigns and the online presence of the so-called 'alt-Right' are all discussed. The book argues that unfair hierarchies of race, gender, and class are not aberrational tremors in America, but the fracturing bedrock of a nation in which being White, male, Christian, or straight no longer ensures a stable floor for power, status, or privilege.

This is vital reading for students, researchers, and activists interested in American politics and the dangers of Right-wing movements and political parties.

INDEX

Abiding Truth Ministries 153

abortion 95, 156, 193, 195, 197–8; and Alt-Right 221, 227; and Culture Wars 125–8, 133–5, 141; and democracy 14, 16–17; and dominionism 148; and freedom 72, 78–9, 84, 93; and militias 63–4; and Patriot movement 213; and Tea Party 120, 123, 162; and theocracy 31–4, 36, 39; and White tribalism 174

Aderholt, R. 145

Adorno, T.W. 210

Afghanistan 21, 104, 113, 136, 213

Africa 152–6, 170, 221

African Americans 17, 42, 62, 64, 71, 83, 86, 92, 132, 134, 169, 191–2

Agape Press 136–7

Aho, J.A. 227

AIDS 37, 153, 156

Aish HaTorah 112

Alien and Sedition Acts 6

alienation 25, 47, 73, 77, 83, 201, 213

Alito, S.A. Jr. 131

Aliyah 112–15

Allen, G. 132, 134

Allen, M. 129

Alliance Defense Fund (ADF) 132–3

Alt-Right 3, 8, 23, 197, 216–29

Alternet 61

Altmeyer, R. 225

Alvarado, P. 186

America First 26, 34

American Bar Association 229

American Christian Cause 14

American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) 125, 132–3, 145

American Civil War 3, 19, 68, 71, 92, 109, 170, 184, 191, 229

American Conservative Union 14

American Cyanamid 6

American Dream 19, 39, 81, 86, 102–3, 184–7, 190, 200, 225

American Fami...