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Oath Keepers - Patriotism and the Edge of Violence in a Right-Wing Antigovernment Group (Hardcover)
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Oath Keepers - Patriotism and the Edge of Violence in a Right-Wing Antigovernment Group (Hardcover)
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Since 2008, the American patriot/militia movement-right-wing
antigovernment groups who portray themselves as fighting
encroaching tyranny-has grown exponentially. Oath Keepers is among
the most visible and vocal of these organizations. Formed in 2009,
Oath Keepers gained notoriety for its involvement in the Bundy
Ranch standoff of 2014 and the Malheur Refuge occupation of 2016.
The group gives voice to a recurrent form of American politics:
virulent distrust of the government combined with a valorization of
violence. Sam Jackson takes readers inside the world of the most
prominent antigovernment group in the United States, examining its
extensive online presence to discover how it builds support for its
political goals and actions. Through an extensive textual analysis
of the group's publications, Jackson explores how Oath Keepers
draws on core American political values and pivotal historical
moments of conflict and crisis from the Revolutionary War to Waco
to Hurricane Katrina to cast its adherents as defenders of liberty.
He details how Oath Keepers makes sense of the contemporary United
States, how it provides members with models of political behavior,
and how it lobbies the wider American public to join the group. The
first book-length investigation of the contemporary patriot/militia
movement, Oath Keepers sheds new light on what animates groups that
pose a growing threat to American security and political culture.
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