The far right in America. (2018)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Cas Mudde.
• Authors: Mudde, Cas
• Contents: Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Table of Contents; Acknowledgments; Preface; Abbreviations; 1. Definitions: The various shades of the US far right; Notes; 2. A short history of the far right in America; 2.1 The Know Nothings; 2.2 The second coming of the Klan; 2.3 The fascist era; 2.4 The civil rights era; 2.5 The late 20th century; 3. The Tea Party paradox; Notes; 4. Wisconsin's Sikh massacre: The real danger; 4.1 The background; 4.2 The consequences; Notes; 5. America's new revolutionaries; 5.1 The toxic take-back; 5.2 The twin target; 5.3 The real threat; Notes 6. America's election and the Tea Party6.1 From defeat ...; 6.2 ... to division; Notes; 7. Is the revolution eating its children?: The Tea Party between AstroTurf and grassroots; Notes; 8. The Green Scare: Why Islamophobia is the new Red Scare; Note; 9. The Trump phenomenon and the European populist radical right; Notes; 10. The power of populism?: Not really!; 10.1 What is populism?; 10.2 Populism in the early 21st century; 10.3 Sanders, the confused social democrat; 10.4 Trump: the elitist anti-establishment candidate of the people; Notes; 11. Is the GOP a far right party?; Notes 12. Will Donald Trump transform the (far) right in the US?Note; 13. Donald Trump: The Great White Hope; 13.1 The radical right as a pathological normalcy; 13.2 The Trump phenomenon: moving target and blurred vision; 13.3 Trump the (political) actor; 13.4 Trumpism: a proto-ideology; 13.5 The Trump supporters: the angry white working class?; 13.6 Donald Trump: an essentially American phenomenon; Note; 14. A talk with Cas Mudde on American and European populism; Notes; 15. The far right has arrived ... and it could take Washington!; Note 16. The revenge of the losers of globalization?: Brexit, Trump and globalizationNote; 17. Stop using the term "alt-right"!; Note; 18. Why is American political science blind on the right eye?; Notes; 19. Did Trump really hijack the GOP?; Note; 20. The latest Trump (and GOP and media) fiasco in nine points; 20.1 This is about sexual assault, not about sexist remarks!; 20.2 If it were about sexist remarks, there would be no reason for the "outcry"; 20.3 If this is your "locker room banter, " you should change your gym!; 20.4 GOP "outcry" is about the messenger, not the message 20.5 This is not about your daughters and wives, it is about all women!20.6 Don't insult (our) white women but feel free to attack all non-white minorities; 20.7 Republicans will probably lose with Trump, but certainly without him; 20.8 It is crucial for US democracy that Trump is defeated by the electorate, not by the GOP establishment; 20.9 The only hope for the GOP is a Goldwater moment; Note; 21. Brexit, Trump, and five (wrong) lessons about "the populist challenge"; 21.1 Brexit and Trump are at least as much about nativism as about populism
• Publisher Details: London : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group
• Publication Date: 2018
• Extent: 1 online resource (xiv, 131 pages)
• Subjects: 320.520973; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Ideologies / Democracy; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Process / Elections; U.S. Politics; Fascism & Nazism; Protest Movements; Right-wing extremists -- United States; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Essays; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Government / General; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Government / National; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Reference; Politics and government; Right-wing extremists; United States -- Politics and government; United States; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781315160764; 1315160765; 9781351663380; 1351663380
• Related ISBNs: 1138063878; 9781138063877; 1138063894; 9781138063891
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Online resource; title from PDF title page (Ebook Central, viewed December 6, 2017).
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