{"id":391660,"date":"2019-01-05T05:16:44","date_gmt":"2019-01-05T04:16:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/profiling-right-wing-extremism-in-america\/"},"modified":"2019-01-05T05:16:44","modified_gmt":"2019-01-05T04:16:44","slug":"profiling-right-wing-extremism-in-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/profiling-right-wing-extremism-in-america\/","title":{"rendered":"Profiling Right-Wing Extremism in America"},"content":{"rendered":"<div itemprop=\"articleBody\">\n<p>The government shutdown over Trump\u2019s proposed southern border wall is a teachable moment, speaking to the danger of rising fascism in America. Contrary to prominent scholarly efforts, I do not believe it is useful to draw a dividing line between Trump\u2019s politics on the one hand, and white supremacy and fascist ideology on the other. [1] Trump may not officially call for an exclusively white ethno-state in his speeches or proposals, but he has long straddled the line between hateful far-right ideology and fascism in his rhetoric and policies. Considering his flirtation with the white supremacist \u201calt-right\u201d movement and his authoritarian politics more generally, it makes sense to speak of American politics under Trump as falling victim to \u201ccreeping\u201d fascism. This classification is not new, as the concept of \u201cfascist creep\u201d is drawn from previous journalistic and historical works. [2]<\/p>\n<p>Trump\u2019s efforts to bully Congress into funding his wall draw on classic elements of totalitarianism and fascism. But in \u201cmainstream\u201d American political discourse, warnings that Trump\u2019s politics speak to a nascent fascism and represent a threat to republican government tend to be marginalized, leaving the impression that these concerns are alarmist and paranoid. For example, in the <em>New York Times<\/em>\u2013 the nation\u2019s \u201cpaper of record,\u201d the terms \u201cfascist\u201d and \u201cfascism\u201d are infrequently applied to Trump. An analysis of the <em>Nexis Uni<\/em>news archive finds that the&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2019\/01\/04\/the-shutdown-as-fascist-creep-profiling-right-wing-extremism-in-america\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The government shutdown over Trump\u2019s proposed southern border wall is a teachable moment, speaking to the danger of rising fascism in America. Contrary to prominent scholarly efforts, I do not believe it is useful to draw a dividing line between Trump\u2019s politics on the one hand, and white supremacy and fascist ideology on the other. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-391660","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/391660","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=391660"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/391660\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=391660"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=391660"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=391660"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}