SOC 0352 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: John Birch Society, White Nationalism, Focusing
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Extreme or radical right are often explicitly racist or xenophobic and violent. New right movements support free enterprise capitalism, patriotism, and traditional mortality, and typically disavow explicit racism and violence. Alt right are white supremacists and white nationalists. Appealed to people who were worried about their own social status in american society. People looking for sense of prestige in their national identity as american. Status politics are a projection of individual worries about social status onto the political arena. A long history of angry politics in america which hofstadter calls the use of paranoid modes of expression by more or less normal people . Wanted us out of the un (thought it was an instrument of the soviet communist conspiracy) Feel that the country is being taken away from them. Feel that the leaders have failed them. The politics of unreason: right-wing extremism in america, 1790-1977 by seymour martin.
