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Making Sense of the Alt-Right (Hardcover)
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Making Sense of the Alt-Right (Hardcover)
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During the 2016 election, a new term entered the American political
lexicon: the "alt-right," short for "alternative right." Despite
the innocuous name, the alt-right is a white-nationalist movement.
Yet it differs from earlier racist groups: it is youthful and
tech-savvy, obsessed with provocation and trolling, amorphous,
predominantly online, and mostly anonymous. And it was energized by
Donald Trump's presidential campaign. In Making Sense of the
Alt-Right, George Hawley provides an accessible introduction to the
alt-right, giving vital perspective on the emergence of a group
whose overt racism has confounded expectations for a more tolerant
America. Hawley explains the movement's origins, evolution,
methods, and its core belief in white identity politics. The book
explores how the alt-right differs from traditional white
nationalism, libertarianism, and other online illiberal ideologies
such as neoreaction, as well as from mainstream Republicans and
even Donald Trump and Steve Bannon. The alt-right's use of
offensive humor and its trolling-driven approach, based in
animosity to so-called political correctness, can make it difficult
to determine true motivations. Yet through exclusive interviews and
a careful study of the alt-right's influential texts, Hawley is
able to paint a full picture of a movement that not only disagrees
with liberalism but fundamentally rejects most of the tenets of
American conservatism. Hawley points to the alt-right's growing
influence and makes a case for coming to a precise understanding of
its beliefs without sensationalism or downplaying the movement's
radicalism.
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