Trumping Democracy From Reagan to the Alt-Right Routledge Studies in Fascism and the Far Right Series

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.

Interlude A: What is Democracy?; Introduction: The Roots of Reaction; 1 Theocracy and White Supremacy: Behind the Culture War to Restore Traditional Values; 2 Swastikas in Cyberspace: Ultra-Right White Supremacy and Antisemitism Online; 3 The European New Right and US Politics; 4 Militia Nation; 5 Defending the Four Freedoms: My Dad, Memorial Day, and Democracy; 5 Why Now?; 7 Drifting Right and Going Wrong: An Overview of the U.S. Political Right; 8 What We Face in the Year 2000; 9 Culture, Religion, Apocalypse, and US Middle East Foreign Policy; Interlude B: Condi’s Dad and the Lessons of War; 10 Running Against Sodom and Osama: The Christian Right, Values Voters and the Culture Wars in 2006; 11 The Rise of Dominionism: Remaking America as a Christian Nation; 12 Exporting Right-Wing Christianity, Jean Hardisty and Chip Berlet; Interlude C: Taking Tea Partiers Seriously; 13 From the KKK to Dylann Roof: White Nationalism Infuses Our Political Ideology; 14 Romney Appeals to White Tribalism in Ohio; 15 ‘Trumping’ Democracy: Right-Wing Populism, Fascism, and the Case for Action; 16 Republican Ideological Shift in Election 2016; 17 From Fascist Ratlines to Republican Party Politics: How Nazi Collaborators Came to America; 18 The Patriot Movement, Armed Insurgents, and Trumpism; 19 Trump, Sado-Populism, Alt-Right, and Apocalyptic Neofascism; Afterword: Defending Democracy Itself; Postscript

John Foster "Chip" Berlet is an American investigative journalist, research analyst, photojournalist, scholar, and activist specializing in the study of Right-wing movements in the United States.