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Alt-America

      Alt-America

       The Rise of the RadicalRight in the Age of Trump

      David Neiwert

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      First published by Verso 2017

      © David Neiwert 2017

      All rights reserved

      The moral rights of the author have been asserted

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      ISBN-13: 978-1-78663-423-8

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       For Fionaand her generation

      Trust, a mighty god has gone, Restraint has gone from men, and the Graces, my friend, have abandoned the earth. Men’s judicial oaths are no longer to be trusted, nor does anyone revere the immortal gods; the race of pious men has perished and men no longer recognize the rules of conduct or acts of piety.

      —Theognis of Megara, describing the fate of men after Pandora opened her box

      Contents

      1.Into the Abyss

      2.Alt-America

      3.Black Helicopters and Truck Bombs

      4.9/11 and the Dark Invaders

      5.A Black President and a Birth Certificate

       7.The Return of the Militias

       8.The Bundy Pandora’s Box

       9.Bad Days on the Malheur

       10.The Alt-Right Reinvention

       11.“Hail Emperor Trump!”

       12.The Id Unleashed

       13.The Aftermath

       Afterword: Fascism and Our Future

       Notes

       Index

       1

       Into the Abyss

      The day after Donald Trump announced his campaign for the presidency, Dylann Roof walked into a Charleston, South Carolina, church with a gun and killed nine black people because they were black.

      It was purely a coincidence that one act followed the other, hundreds of miles apart: Roof apparently knew little about Trump and was not known to be a Trump follower. Trump had never met nor had any interaction with Roof.

      Yet the two acts were inextricably connected—by the events and acts that had preceded them, and by those that followed in the ensuing weeks and months. Most of all, both acts signaled, in different ways, a deep change in the American cultural and political landscape.

      The American radical right—the violent, paranoid, racist, hateful radical right—was back with a vengeance. Actually, it had never really gone away. And now it had a presidential candidate.

      Hopefully, he’s going to sit there and say, “When I become elected president, what we’re going to do is we’re going to make the border a vacation spot, it’s going to cost you twenty-five dollars for a permit, and then you get fifty dollars for every confirmed kill.” That’d be one nice thing.

      —Supporter of Donald Trump, interviewed in the New York Times

      This robocall goes out to all millennials and others who are honest in all their dealings … The white race is being replaced by other peoples in America and in all white countries. Donald Trump stands strong as a nationalist.

      —William White (a white nationalist), pro-Trump robocall to Massachusetts voters

      The march to victory will not be won by Donald Trump in 2016, but this could be the steppingstone we need to then radicalize millions of White working and middle class families to the call to truly begin a struggle for Faith, family and folk.

      —Matthew Heimbach, cofounder of the neo-Nazi Traditionalist Youth Network, at organization’s website

      Get all of these monkeys the hell out of our country—now! Heil Donald Trump—THE ULTIMATE SAVIOR.

      —Tweet from the Daily Stormer, a neo-Nazi website

      Donald Trump was right, all these illegals need to be deported.

      —White man in Boston who with another man beat a homeless Latino to within an inch of his life with a metal pole and then urinated on him

      People who are following me are very passionate. They love this country and they want this country to be great again. They are passionate.

      —Donald Trump, when asked about the Boston hate crime

      Most Americans surveying the wreckage of the American political landscape in the aftermath of the 2016 presidential election are startled by the ugliness and violence that have crept into the nation’s electoral politics. And they can recognize its source: the sudden appearance of the racist far right as players.

      Almost as blindingly as Donald Trump appeared on the scene, so did an array of white nationalists and supremacists, conspiracy theorists and xenophobes, even Klansmen and skinheads and other violent radicals, who for decades had been relegated to the fringe of right-wing politics. Hadn’t they gone extinct?

      Most Americans did not realize that, far from going extinct, these groups had been growing and flourishing in recent years, fed by the rivulets of hate mongering and disinformation-fueled propaganda flowing out of right-wing media for at least a decade and the hospitable dark environment provided by a virtual blackout in mainstream media concerning the growth of right-wing extremism.

      These tendencies dated back to the Bill Clinton administration, when the radical right first began to try to mainstream itself as a “patriot” and militia movement, but was derailed largely by the violent terrorism that the movement also brewed up. Simultaneously, right-wing media began appearing as a new propaganda type that openly eschewed the journalistic standards of mainstream news organizations: in a classic use of “Newspeak,” they declared themselves “fair and balanced.”

      The organizational drive of the new “Patriot” movement largely went into a hiatus in the early part of the new century, during the conservative Republican administration of George W. Bush, but