L.someone cried. There was nothing to be seen, but just in case someone tied a clothesline to a lamppost in New York’s Tenderloin neighborhood: “From 8 to 11 he saw everything going up and down 8th Avenue.” car” of new york times According to an August 1900 report, “stopped by the crowd, all the crew on board were dragged out, rioted, and beaten until they were able to escape.” Local police soon arrived, but “made little to no attempt to apprehend the perpetrators.”
Today, a less familiar image of the far right in America is beginning to emerge. A white supremacist and self-proclaimed incel elite golf club, an African-American who worships Adolf Hitler and believes Jews are plotting to have him declared insane raps with his musicians, A former US president with a turbulent sex politics meets. planning a comeback.
Of course, except for those who were condemned to live it out, in any other part of the world, this would be the stuff of comedy. The world order depends above all on predictability in American political life. A bizarre meeting that Donald Trump held last week at his Florida resort of Mar-a-Lago suggests it’s unwise to expect that.
The far-right political organization that underpins Trump’s ascendancy is hitting a demographic wall. Along with immigration and urbanization, the growth of liberal-minded millennial communities is undermining credible Republican strongholds such as Texas, Arizona, and Georgia.
The growing influence of young urban liberals will force change, as evidenced by the surprisingly strong performance of the Democrats in right-wing-dominated states in recent midterm elections. Journalist Derek Thompson says Republicans “will have to let go of the smoke of retrograde xenophobia.” [and] To compete more aggressively for votes in the New South: to be a party for moderates, black voters and immigrants. ”
For far-right Christian fundamentalists, white supremacists, anti-Semites, and survivalists, this means the loss of decades of political clout. The right wanted Trump to usher in a new millennium and American greatness built around God and white supremacy, but that dream could be forever out of reach This political defeat could open up new dangers and could turn those around them into terrorism.
America’s Not-So-Lone Wolves
The lone wolf is not just a figment of the jihadist imagination. For no particular reason, Alt-Reich: Nation’s neo-Nazi member Sean Urbanski stabbed Richard Collins III to death at a bus stop. Jeremy Christian murdered two of his men on a train in Portland who intervened to stop him from insulting a woman wearing a hijab.
Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) agents have regularly arrested far-right individuals distributing bomb-making instructions and planning large-scale attacks against religious and racial minorities.
Criminologists Matthew Sweeney and Ariel Periger point out that far-right terrorism in the United States is largely impulsive.
However, there are substantive reasons to be concerned. In her brilliantly researched extremism within the U.S. military, Kathleen Brew criticizes ex-soldiers who believe America’s long wars have been denied them victory by a corrupt political system. said to have created the Brotherhood of By carrying guns and training cells with military tactics, as organizations like The Oath Keepers claim, the United States is caught in a conspiracy to seize the rights of its citizens.
Following Germany’s defeat in World War I, anthropologist John Conner noted that a similar brotherhood of ex-soldiers was drawn to the Nazis. This is the product of a paranoid mind that they imagined to be their last defense against savagery.
The second trend, as scholar Arie Perilliger writes, comes from zealots who believe there is a left-wing conspiracy underway to strip America of its Christian character. In one of his posts on the influential far-right online network, the leader called for “removing prayers from schools, removing nativity scenes from government property, crosses and religion from many municipal flags and logotypes.” “Removal of symbolic symbols”. .
Journalist James Pogue argues that these groups must be joined by a disaffected elite New Right. “Post-Left”, or “Meticulous” fringe.
With influences as diverse as the European royalism to bomb Ted Kaczynski, the collective is a “liberal ideology of individualism, increasingly bureaucratic government, and gigantic technology all combined. The result is a world that is tyrannical, chaotic, and devoid of value systems.” moral. “
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long-term racial tension
Understanding what underlies the concerns of right-wing white voters is anything but imaginative. Later in the century, the United States will transition from being a predominantly white nation to one in which whites represent only the largest single ethnic group. For the 18-to-her 29-year-old cohort, experts predict the tipping point will likely come within this decade. America is remarkable for embracing diversity, but some say change is too rapid, especially in small towns and rural communities.
America has been here for a long time. From the 1850s to the 1870s. From 1915 to the 1920s. From the 1950s through the course of the civil rights movement: White nationalists in America used mass violence to suppress black claims for equality.
Alexis de Tocqueville, a 19th-century French diplomat, wrote: “In nearly all states where slavery has been abolished, N. is entitled to vote, but he will risk his life to vote. Let’s go,” he said. He added, “He is allowed to worship the same God as the white man, but he must not pray at the same altar.”
The situation was not much different in the liberal North, as the work of scholars such as Desmond King and Stephen Tuck suggests. For example, in population-adjusted terms, black Americans had a much higher risk of being lynched outside the South.
Trump’s Dystopian Promise
For his supporters, scholars Rogers Smith and Desmond King noted that Trump promised “white protectionism.” Measures he pledged included “unhindered policing, weakened civil rights enforcement, and restrictions on franchising and immigration.” Instead of simply vetoing affirmative action programs, Trump “emphasizes aggressive measures to protect those deemed white from perceived inequalities.”
Fear of undermining racial conflict has led America to push for equality, against his instincts and beliefs.
Although improvements have been made, regions and cities are still quarantined. One-third of black families have zero or negative assets, and one of his three black children lives in poverty. Frank Edwards, Hedwig Lee, and Michael Esposito showed that black men and boys are more than twice as likely to be killed by police than whites.
As we enter a period of heightened strategic competition from China and Russia, the United States will need to address these issues, but in the process risks facing a white rush.
The midterm elections may have defeated the most extreme elements of American politics, but the bizarre meeting at Mar-a-Lago teaches us that American democracy isn’t all good. The Republican movement, waging a life-threatening existential battle, seeks to create a common cause on the extreme fringes of America’s reaction with centrists willing to engage actively with demographic realities. Divided into willing rivals. The fate of American democracy depends on the outcome of this struggle.
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(Edited by Humra Laeeq)
