Does the far-right extremism of the Trump era represent an eternal pattern in American politics or a new one?
” that it was also their Waterloo. Neiwert has been following the far right since the late nineteen-seventies, when he was a cub reporter in Idaho—a center, at the time, of the white-power movement. His story, which spans a half century, is most interesting in its account of what happened to the movement after Charlottesville. Many of the alt-right’s principals wound up in jail.
Neiwert emphasizes how closely the bug-eyed guys with guns follow mainstream politics.
“People that you’ve never heard of,” Trump replied, “people that are in the dark shadows, people . . .” In some ways, this is the major theme of the history that Neiwert tells—the opportunistic relationship between the extremist fringe and the Republican establishment. For most of that history, even through Charlottesville, the patterns of the far right were all bottom-up. By the lead-up to January 6th, the situation had become more complicated: now some of it was top-down.
Sharlet takes particular notice of the ways in which Trump’s protracted challenges to the 2020 Presidential election played to people like Babbitt. “The audit in Maricopa County, for instance, was absurd, yes, and also real,” he writes. “This is how you construct an alternate reality, the juxtaposition of the verifiable and the absurd, each vouching for the other.”
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