Trumping Democracy by Chip Berlet - 9781138212497

Taylor & Francis

Trumping DemocracyFrom Reagan to the Alt-Right\nAuthor(s): Chip Berlet\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9781138212497, 978-1138212497\nSynopsis\nSince 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. \n\nThis book explains the increase in violent White nationalism and Trumps 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 i.