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
Cuprins
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
Bibliography
Despre autor
Chip Berlet is an investigative journalist and independent scholar who has published widely on right-wing movements in scholarly journals and the national media. From 1981–2011, he was Senior Analyst at Political Research Associates, a progressive think-tank in Massachusetts.
Matthew N. Lyons has been writing and publishing widely about right-wing politics since the 1990s. His work focuses on the interplay between right-wing movements and systems of oppression, and responses to these movements by leftists, liberals, and the state. He has been the Drexel University Archivist since 2016.
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