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Making Sense of the Alt-Right (Paperback)
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Making Sense of the Alt-Right (Paperback)
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During the 2016 election, a new term entered the mainstream
American political lexicon: "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 and gives 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 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 also
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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