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American historian Rick Perlstein argues that radical right issues, including populism, nativism, and authoritarianism—embodied by conspiracy-minded right-wing movements, such as the Black Legion, Charles Coughlin, the Christian Front, and "birther" speculation [39] — have had more influence on mainstream conservatism than William F ...
[8] [1] Major events in America which alarm or inspire the patriot movement include the 1992 Ruby Ridge siege, the 1993 Waco siege and the 1995 Oklahoma City Bombing. [9] The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) found that the economic decline and nomination of Barack Obama in 2008 caused the movement to "come roaring back", after declining from ...
Right-wing populism during this period focused on protectionist fiscal conservatism as well as cultural issues surrounding immigration and identity politics. [ 86 ] [ 87 ] [ 88 ] Trumpism incorporated an opposition to democratic norms, [ 89 ] [ 90 ] as well as an acceptance of political conspiracy theories as mainstream ideas.
The CRWS was founded in 2009 and describes itself as having two missions: "first, to identify right-wing movements, flesh out their twentieth-century histories (how they aligned and how they survived) while isolating their novel aspects in the 21st century; and second, to develop and apply principles of how right-wing thought, ideology and organizational capacities operate to understand the ...
The group dissolved in 2019 and rebranded as the American Identity Movement, which disbanded in 2020. Its leaders have splintered to other white nationalist groups.
The term encompasses various often-populist political phenomena and rhetoric, such as governmental migration policies that regulate mobility and opportunity based on identities, left-wing agendas involving intersectional politics or class reductionism, and right-wing nationalist agendas of exclusion of national or ethnic "others."
[131] [132] During the Russian interference in the 2016 United States elections, examples of efforts included "campaigning for African American voters to boycott elections or follow the wrong voting procedures in 2016", "encouraging extreme right-wing voters to be more confrontational", and "spreading sensationalist, conspiratorial, and other ...
Right-wing populism in the United States (11 C, 44 P) Pages in category "Right-wing politics in the United States" The following 52 pages are in this category, out of 52 total.