The "old" radical right displayed the same combination of paranoia and inventiveness as today's radical right.
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"What unites the radical right in Europe is their focus on immigration," Elisabeth Ivarsflaten, an expert on the radical right at the University of Bergen in Norway, explains.
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But these two parties were transformed: They were initially not radical right, but then they were taken over by a radical right leader who pushed them in that direction in the late 1980s.
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Some thinkers on the radical right even rely on it
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Authoritarianism is the one [the radical right shares] with conservative parties.
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France and Austria have strong radical right parties, but Spain doesn't.
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Orbán has become the most important voice of radical right ideology.
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Russia has taken a particular liking to the European radical right.
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I devote most of "Alt-America: The Rise of the Radical Right in the Age of Trump" to explaining how the radical right really started taking root and expanding its reach into mainstream politics in the 1990s.
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But the economic crisis didn't help the radical right all that much.
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The radical right loves him, perhaps even more than they love Trump.
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"There has been a substantial emboldening of the radical right," Beirich said.
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Most important, Europe's radical right parties do not always support one another.
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Eastern European radical right parties are different, for a broad variety of reasons.
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CM: Until 2015, roughly, the radical right was particularly weak in Eastern Europe.
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The opposite approach to the radical right has to be a radical left.
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How the far left and radical right react is the more explosive question.
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"Obviously, this was a PR disaster," said Daniel Friberg, a prominent figure in the Swedish radical right identitarian movement, who attended the "Unite the Right" rally in Charlottesville with a group of friends, including American radical-right leader Richard Spencer.
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By contrast, anti-Semitism is almost absent on the radical right in Western Europe.
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CM: I personally consider Orbán, and Fidesz since 2015, as a radical right actor.
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A post-Brexit slump would create a fertile feeding ground for the radical right.
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This is what the radical right is using to strike down Roe v. Wade.
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Rudolph, however, was a radical right-wing terrorist from Florida, not a foreign-born attacker.
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Dark Money: The Hidden History of the Billionaires Behind the Rise of the Radical Right.
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Putin covertly supports radical right racist parties that are reminiscent of Europe in the 1930s.
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DARK MONEY: The Hidden History of the Billionaires Behind the Rise of the Radical Right.
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They also know that new attacks empower the radical right in a vicious feedback loop.
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MORE, the falsehood that launched his political career and endeared him to the radical right.
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This approach will not just weaken the radical right, it will force liberals to stop behaving defensively and, finally, put forward visions for liberal democracy based on their own issues and values rather than on overblown fears of a radical right on the march.
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ZB: We've seen truly astonishing growth in the radical right in the past several years particularly.
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It is important to note that the financial crisis hasn't created many new radical right parties.
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Radical-right parties with anti-Semitic ideologies have rarely won more than 1% of the vote.
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But over the past four decades, the radical right has only once earned a single seat.
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But France, the Netherlands, and the US did not see radical right-wing parties take office.
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They went to the polls mainly to prevent the radical right from getting into the government.
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Trump likewise plays into the liberal narrative that the radical right verges on being anti-American.
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So we are seeing the radical right and radical left (nature-knows-best types) joining forces.
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If it comes from the right, it tends to be neo-Nazi groups, not radical right parties.
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He's not so much increasing the radical right as he's saying what they've been saying all along.
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The conflict with the Palestinians has destroyed Israel's left and empowered a seemingly ever-more-radical right.
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There is a coordinated effort on the radical right to change our country by controlling the states.
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His most recent books include "The Populist Radical Right: A Reader" and "Populism: A Very Short Introduction."
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Representatives of Mr. Putin's United Russia Party have met on many occasions with European radical right leaders.
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Washington under the Trump administration looks set to become a new pilgrimage site for Europe's radical right.
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I think when the radical right and the radical left come together, there will always be violence.
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Cas Mudde: The core of the ideology of the radical right includes three features: nativism, authoritarianism, and populism.
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DARK MONEY: The Hidden History of the Billionaires Behind the Rise of the Radical Right, by Jane Mayer.
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Source: Business Insider, "Dark Money: The Hidden History of the Billionaires Behind the Rise of the Radical Right"
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The IRS is not so much declining as it is succumbing to a relentless, radical, right-wing agenda.
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For some analysts, this change in the economy is directly linked to the rise of the radical right.
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"This group is so extreme that they cause a ton of controversy within the radical right," he said.
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The ultra-religious, radical, right-wing fundamentalists are dictating our public health policy right now, and it's dangerous.
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As a result, Republicans in power have continued to provide cover for radical-right violence in the modern era.
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Under a banner of radical right-wing reform that raised investors' expectations, Bolsonaro's insurgent candidacy became a social phenomenon.
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Perhaps, after that happens, the State Department can better target overseas radical right-wing terrorist groups for FTO designation.
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At the same time, the voices of the radical right do not justify the actions of the radical left.
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The Israeli prime minister enters into an alliance with a radical right-wing party to save his political career.
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I think the radical left decided that the radical right didn't have the right to march in the street.
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The reality is that there is a growing wave of support for the radical right in all its disparate iterations.
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Those business groups that have continued to dwell on broader problems have thrown in their lot with the radical right.
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The populist radical right might not be his official political friends right now, but they sure are his ideological allies.
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"Much of the energy on the radical right this year was concentrated in the white supremacist milieu," the report says.
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The one-sided understanding for anti-Semitic attitudes among some Muslim immigrants reinforces radical right- and left-wing anti-Semitism.
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Fox has to straddle the quite different markets for radical right crazy and the 'mainstream' engaging in a perpetual ... 8.
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But keeping them away from the radical right is a continuing project for me and should be for any parent.
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Still, the European radical right is in a better situation than it once was in terms of its international standing.
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RT employs young disenfranchised journalists (including American and British citizens), who are generally of the radical left or radical right.
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Breivik held radical right-wing views and said he hoped his attack would help stop Muslims from immigrating to Europe.
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"Most importantly, [the election] is another step in slow & steady electoral rise & political normalization of populist radical right," Mudde writes.
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The radical right draws energy from the silence of their neighbors, because they uniformly interpret it as tacit, even implicit support.
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The radical right — a group of extremist parties united mostly by their deep hatred of immigrants — has been surging in popularity.
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Perhaps he really is the voice of the radical right, ready to use the same tactics of his opposition against them.
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At the same time, Le Pen may have reassured some fence straddlers who were wavering over her radical right-wing pedigree.
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With the post-9/11 rise in Islamophobia across the Western world, radical right-wing racism was allowed to run rampant.
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All this amounts to a devastating legacy of shattered illusions, which is one reason radical right-wing parties have grown strong.
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The first approach is to try to ignore the populist radical right — and even treat it as some kind of pariah.
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If this were principally about economic anxiety, you'd expect women to be more attracted to radical right parties than men are.
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The way to fight the radical right is not to inflate its strength by seeing ideological alliances where they don't exist.
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Viktor Orbán sets his sights on building a populist radical right from within Europe Viktor Orbán sets his sights on building a populist radical right from within Europe Emboldened by his close ties to Russia and the surprise election of Donald Trump, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán has ratcheted up his antagonistic approach to the EU in recent weeks.
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And that bombing was carried out by Eric Robert Rudolph, a radical right-wing terrorist from Florida -- not a foreign-inspired terrorist.
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In a scene almost reminiscent of college campuses today, Serena, a radical right voice, visits a liberal campus and is booed offstage.
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DARK MONEY The Hidden History of the Billionaires Behind the Rise of the Radical Right By Jane Mayer 449 pp. Doubleday. $29.95.
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Democracy in Chains exposes the frightening intellectual roots of the radical right, as well as its ultimate ambition: to erode American democracy.
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Though John's been talking about rejecting the entire construct of manhood for decades, his work seems especially relevant and radical right now.
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For the last six years I have spent an inordinate amount of time among the American radical right, reporting for my book.
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Its Intelligence Project, which monitors "the radical right," has been used as a resource by law enforcement officials and the news media.
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"People say that the good thing about first-past-the-post systems is you don't get radical-right parties," Dr. Hobolt said.
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They see Trump's nomination as proof that what Europeans would consider to be radical right positions are "mainstream" in the United States.
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Today you can see some nonwhites among radical right parties, but they tend to be Christian or at the very least non-Muslim.
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ZB: So that's another important point — radical right parties try to distance themselves from the heritage of fascism, at least in Western Europe.
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Orbán is now very much not just the voice of the radical right but of the most conservative parts of the center right.
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The party offered a tweedy, boozy image and tried to avoid the openly Islamophobic rhetoric common in other radical-right parties in Europe.
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In the broad brush, the theory that economic anxiety, and not a breakdown in status hierarchies, is driving the radical right makes sense.
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Francisco Franco and catering to the radical right is run by a Chinese man — an irony that has not gone unnoticed by patrons.
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In 2009, the Constitutional Court, Germany's highest legal body, ruled that disseminating radical-right-wing and Nazi views is not per se unconstitutional.
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In France the gilets jaunes (yellow jackets), who drew support from the radical right and left, were about to explode onto the streets.
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Op-Ed Contributor The day after President Trump's inauguration in Washington, jubilant leaders of Western Europe's radical right parties gathered in Koblenz, Germany.
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He singled out Poland and Hungary as two countries where the radical-right, or factions thereof, might call for a referendum on EU membership.
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Some haven't really adjusted their approach, while others have tried Mudde's "radical right light" option, tacking right on issues of immigration and racial identity.
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But the paper is nonetheless a warning that austerity might, all else being equal, make it easier for radical right-wing politics to flourish.
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We woke up on January 21 to a president flirting dangerously with radical right-wing ideology and a Congress empowering him to do it.
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Strangely, amidst growing concerns over tech platforms censoring radical right-wing personalities, some Republicans seem to be more supportive than Democrats of Warren's policy.
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"Ideas on the radical right have come together to create this maelstrom that ultimately has left little line for designation between ideologies," he says.
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In neighboring Bernau, she spotted graffiti on a telephone booth urging people to slug in the mouth those who oppose the radical right wingers.
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His ideological core is much more modest than Le Pen's, however, and closer to the radical right instincts of Trump and his top adviser.
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"I might not feel radical [right now]' she says, "but in the arc of history and humanity it is radical to start gay families.
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And generalizing from the German case, support for radical right-wing movements in the present day sometimes arises out of deep austerity, but sometimes doesn't.
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These days there is no shortage of articles and books dealing with radical-right populism, despots, democratic backsliding, and the tactics that authoritarian leaders deploy.
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Rather than trying to isolate, borrow from or govern together with a populist radical-right insurgency, a center-right party actually turns itself into one.
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In 2017, Europe's radical right leaders find that they are increasingly welcomed in capitals around the world, from Budapest to Tel Aviv, Moscow to Washington.
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He accused the upstate Republicans of "zealotry" and bowing to the "Ryan radical right," a reference to House Speaker Paul Ryan, who backs the bill.
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Like the Dadaists, the trolling radical right has always been acutely sensitive to the emotions of shockingly vulgar communications whose primary goal is cognitive manipulation.
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The populist Alternative for Germany (AfD) will be the first modern radical right party to enter the Bundestag, the lower house of the German Parliament.
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What follows is a transcript of our chat about the European radical right, from what ideas they stand for to where they stand, politically speaking, today.
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Within Germany, anger at the Treaty of Versailles and the harsh provisions it imposed led to the rise of radical right-wing parties, including the Nazis.
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He claimed he was converted to radical-right ideology on a trip to France in 2017, when he saw how much of the population was Muslim.
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Over the last two weeks, Netanyahu has made tireless efforts to unite Jewish Power and two other radical right-wing, pro-settler parties into one party.
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That sort of rhetoric has fueled anti-refugee sentiment and spurred mass demonstrations by radical right-wingers no longer ashamed to be open about their politics.
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In their annual census of hate groups, the Southern Poverty Law Center has found that the "radical right" has become more active under the Trump presidency.
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The threat of radical right-wing white supremacists is also unequivocally transnational, as documented in the September 2019 Soufan Center report that details the growing menace.
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"It doesn't seem at all like they are interested in pursuing extremists inspired by radical right ideologies," said Mr. Lenz, who edits the organization's HateWatch publication.
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The U.K. Independence Party is home to free-market fundamentalists, unlike many of the Continent's radical-right parties, which support protectionism or preserving the welfare state.
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Now, pretty much everybody on the radical right has read this stuff, imbibed this stuff — and he put it into the public domain for white supremacists.
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The radical right party, which has strong links to Le Pen and is strongly opposed to refugees, immigration, and Islam, could realistically win the election outright.
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But its electoral success means it must now face the dilemma that confronts many radical-right parties: the compromises of coalition versus the purifying rage of opposition.
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Getting a majority in the Senate is critical, lest we see the Supreme Court fall into the hands of a radical-right majority for generations to come.
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Cowell hasn't been connected to any radical right wing or white supremacist group, but police are investigating all angles because he "has a violent past," Rojas said.
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Hall coined this term in the late 1970s to describe 'the rise of the radical right under Thatcherite auspices' from the ruins of 'the social-democratic consensus'.
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The Southern Poverty Law Center said in a report this month hate groups proliferated in 2016 as Donald Trump's bid for the U.S. presidency energized the radical right.
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Corporations and radical right-wing activists have succeeded because they have been strategic about building power where it is easiest to change the entire political terrain: state legislatures.
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Pooja Gehi, National Lawyers Guild The reason that Trump won is because the radical right is scared—of people pushing back and doing amazing work on the ground.
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And while we usually identified anti-Semitism as a radical right-wing phenomenon, its current reincarnation often comes from the other end of the spectrum — the radical left.
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Charlottesville has given the radical right the international attention it craves (including from the president of the United States), while also nakedly exposing the ugliness of its beliefs.
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The most radical nationalist elements were given the boot, and the more moderate faction became more or less like the rest of Europe's radical right, Mr. Nilsson said.
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In Australia Malcolm Turnbull also supported same-sex marriage although he has pushed the issue to a post-election plebiscite to appease the radical right of his party.
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Nothing the ongoing crisis in Venezuela, the wave of radical right parties sweeping Europe, or any of America's several ongoing military conflicts in places like Afghanistan and Yemen.
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The former White House Chief Strategist seeks to stoke the "populist-nationalist" movement, but he's not the first member of the radical right to create a propaganda film.
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A key difference this time is that the federal government — the entity that almost the entire radical right views as its primary enemy — is headed by a black man.
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It's that the space in mainstream politics for a style of really radical right-wing politics that has been sealed off for the past couple of decades has opened.
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"Radical right parties across the EU remain far from creating a joint platform," Barroso said, adding that they all have different views regarding key issues, including relations with Russia.
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Political scientist Hajo Funke, an expert on the far-right, said the AfD contained radical right-wing members as well as people who did not see themselves that way.
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"The populist radical right is at the highest in its support that it's ever been," says Cas Mudde, a professor at the University of Georgia who studies European populism.
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Congress should take additional steps to institutionalize the focus on radical-right terrorism within federal law enforcement agencies so that it will always be given the attention it deserves.
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"I'm very skeptical that copy/pasting the policies of the radical right will guarantee Denmark's Social Democrats and the center-left elsewhere in Europe a flourishing future," said Niedhardt.
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But the hard core that remains is more coherent, uniting strands of the radical right, explains Johannes Filous, co-founder of Strassengezwitscher, a journalistic group that monitors Saxony's far right.
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"Right now there is a high polarisation around globalisation versus nationality, which favours both the Greens and the radical right," says Emilie van Haute of the Université Libre in Brussels.
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Moro has since been appointed Justice Minister in the administration of Jair Bolsonaro, a radical right-winger who won the presidential election in 2018 after Lula was barred from running.
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As the rise of the radical right in Europe and of Donald J. Trump in the United States shows, resignation remains too bitter a pill for many people to swallow.
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" The Southern Poverty Law Center describes VDare as an "anti-immigration hate website" that serves to "promote the work of white supremacists, anti-Semites and others on the radical right.
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"He offered our brave men and women in uniform the bitter insult of using them as political pawns to push his radical right-wing, anti-immigrant agenda," Mr. Hammill said.
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Last year's report identified 10 SVR and GRU officers among the 37 Russian diplomats in Sweden; this year's report notes an increase in contacts with Swedish radical right-wing organizations.
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We're facing a climate crisis, and the "progressive" members of our government seem committed to the status quo, while the radical right wing seems nihilistically committed to making things worse.
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According to Megan Squire, a senior fellow at the Center for Analysis of the Radical Right, two Telegram channels forwarded versions of the video to 15,625 other accounts on Wednesday.
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It was also a moment that galvanized concern that Europe's radical right was beginning to move from the margins to the mainstream, long before anybody was talking about Donald Trump.
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Mayer, who is also the author of Dark Money: The Hidden History of the Billionaires Behind the Rise of the Radical Right, has covered big money politics as well as anyone.
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For all the talk about Trump's populism, his cabinet picks and many of his own proposals, particularly on taxes and regulations, are in line with the ideology of the radical right.
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The following day, the nonprofit would unveil its annual Hate Map of America , a main feature of the spring issue of its biannual Intelligence Report , which focusses on the radical right.
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"The people who supported the B.J.P. were voting for Mr. Modi, overlooking the radical right wing of his party, because he promised to focus on jobs and growth," Mr. Bhalla said.
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And rumors swirl about Russian financial support for radical right parties, though so far the only evidence is of a loan from a Russian bank to France's National Front in 2014.
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"Trump's run for office electrified the radical right, which saw in him a champion of the idea that America is fundamentally a white man's country," the Southern Poverty Law Center said.
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Some, like Republican first-round candidate François Fillon, have tried a "radical right light" stance critical of the EU and immigration that doesn't go as far as their far-right competitors.
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" In a book titled "Key Thinkers of the Radical Right," Teitelbaum describes Friberg in Budapest as "perpetually late and impeccably dapper"; someone who "drinks and smokes hard, but always keeps his cool.
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"The reporter had written a story they disliked," Ms. Mayer recounts in "Dark Money: The Hidden History of the Billionaires Behind the Rise of the Radical Right," out this month from Doubleday.
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Thierry Baudet, the leader of the newest populist radical-right party in the Netherlands, the Forum for Democracy (FvD), dresses like a cosmopolitan CEO and began his first parliamentary speech in Latin.
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"What unites the radical right is their focus on immigration," Elisabeth Ivarsflaten, a professor at the University of Bergen in Norway who studies the far right, told me in a recent interview.
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No one was killed in the attack and police reported worshipers were able to overpower the assailant, but the incident still raises serious concerns about the spread of radical right-wing rhetoric.
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"One in three Italians vote for the League, so it is clear that the party needs to talk to everybody, not just the radical right," he told a group of foreign reporters.
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That is, while Republicans have elected radical right-wing politicians in deep red states (or even purple states like Florida and Nevada), many solidly blue states are represented by Democrats who are centrist.
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He thus makes for an odd bedfellow of Beppe Grillo, the leader of the main opposition group, the populist Five Star Movement; and of Matteo Salvini, who leads the radical-right Northern League.
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" De Benoist now disavows this essay and other work from these years, saying he "said a lot of stupid things before" growing disappointed "not only with the radical right, but also with politics.
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They found that people who thought they were being left behind were less willing to vote for the radical right when the economy was weak (though support for the radical left was stronger).
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"Globalism is a principle driver for the fears that animate the radical right in the United States," said Ryan Lenz, the editor of Hatewatch, a blog published by the Southern Poverty Law Center.
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In the clip, posted to Twitter by Right Wing Watch, a group that "monitors and exposes the activities of Radical Right political organizations," the pastor shakes her arms as she delivers the prayer.
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Shadow Network: Media, Money, and the Secret Hub of the Radical Right by Anne Nelson focuses on an organization that has attracted relatively little attention in popular studies of the right so far.
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The clearest example of the disunity of today's radical right can be found in the European Parliament, where right-wing parties have been trying to build a strong coalition since the late 1980s.
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"Trump's run for office electrifed the radical right, which saw in him a champion of the idea that America is fundamentally a white man's country," wrote Mark Potok, a senior fellow at the SPLC.
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His most recent books include "On Extremism and Democracy in Europe" (2016), "SYRIZA: The Failure of the Populist Promise" (2017), "The Populist Radical Right: A Reader" (2017) and "Populism: A Very Short Introduction" (2017).
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The second-biggest party in the country's parliament on Saturday picked Halla-aho as its new leader in a move set to take the moderately nationalist party into a more radical right-wing populism.
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" He wrote last month, "Donald Trump's demonizing statements about Latinos and Muslims have electrified the radical right, leading to glowing endorsements from white nationalist leaders such as Jared Taylor and former Klansman David Duke.
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Adding to Mr. Modi's woes, he has found himself on the defensive as the radical right wing of his party and offshoots have adopted an aggressive agenda that has sometimes spilled over into violence.
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So, trying to beat a radical right-wing populist insurgency by becoming one — or for that matter, by adopting its agenda and even inviting it into government — turns out to be a fool's errand.
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I make a distinction generally between the extreme right, which opposes democracy as such, and the radical right, which accepts democracy but challenges some of the fundamentals of liberal democracy — particularly pluralism and minority rights.
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It only started to become profitable for the radical right when the economic crisis was linked the perceived incompetence of the EU leadership, and when there was a connection to, of course, the refugee crisis.
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"If Seehofer goes, he needs to warn the Russians that they need to stop the hybrid falsification of information and the undercover financing of radical right-wing networks," he told the newspaper Welt am Sonntag.
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Anne Nelson, an acclaimed journalist and author of the forthcoming book, "Shadow Network: Media, Money and the Secret Hub of the Radical Right," says she's often asked whether she suffers when writing on fraught subjects.
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This past week, Italy's intelligence services published an annual report that noted increased activity by left-wing anarchist groups, as well as the growing dynamism and appeal of radical right groups, especially among young people.
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In 2009, a hacker self-identified as "aLpTurkTegin" hacked the website of the radical right-wing firebrand Dutch politician Geert Wilders, whose anti-Islamic, anti-EU stance led the U.K. to bar him from entry.
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" Eventually, Daou hopes the site will have a podcast, some analysis, a hub on YouTube and other elements, as he aims to help Clinton backers fight the "bullying from the radical right and fringe left.
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A historian who was writing in the middle of the McCarthyism of the 1950s and watching the rise of the Radical Right in Republican Barry Goldwater's presidential campaign, Hofstadter was interested in this underside of conservatism.
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Now many conservative white brothers and sisters and many radical right-wingers of all races have attempted to distort Martin Luther King Jr&aposs memory, to whitewash him of the social context of his racial ideas.
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In addition to Trump, former White House Chief Strategist Steve Bannon and former advisor Sebastian Gorka will also speak at three-day conference, dubbed "a rogues' gallery of the radical right," by the Southern Poverty Law Center.
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As centrist parties shift right on migration, radical right-wingers - from Austria's Freedom Party to France's National Front - are adopting a softer tone on Europe, dropping their threats to exit the EU and ditch the euro currency.
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The last plan was carried out successfully in an election that saw German chancellor Angela Merkel secure a fourth term, but with reduced authority as radical right-wing party AfD joined parliament as the third-largest party.
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If overwhelming concrete evidence debunks the theorists' notions, it only reinforces their ideas, said Chip Berlet, a researcher of radical-right movements and retired analyst at Political Research Associates, a left-leaning think tank in Somerville, Mass.
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With this in mind, it should thus come as no surprise that the radical right was soundly defeated in Austria, the Netherlands and France, and that the AfD (Alternative for Germany) is in rapid decline in Germany.
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AUSTIN, Texas (Reuters) - The Southern Poverty Law Center said in a report released on Wednesday that hate groups in the United States proliferated in 2016 as Donald Trump's bid for the U.S. presidency energized the radical right.
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The radical right isn't only the alt-right; it also includes the alt-rights in the "Patriot"/militia movement and associated far-right hate movements devoted to specific kinds of bigotry against Muslims, LGBT people, immigrants and women.
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Gail McElroy, a political scientist at Trinity College, Dublin, who has made a study of the European Parliament, said it was likely that the radical right will make some gains at the European elections on May 223rd-222th.
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"When we took a look at lone wolf attacks inspired by radical right ideas in the last five years of the Obama administration, there was an attack or attempted plot every 34 days in the US," she said.
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But she said it was a good opportunity to promote her new book, "Dark Money: The Hidden History of the Billionaires Behind the Rise of the Radical Right," for an audience that is really passionate about campaign finance.
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The surge of radical-right organizing by the mostly online alt right in recent years has, in fact, been consciously directed at precisely that demographic: white men between about 14 and 6003, underemployed and frustrated with their lives.
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But the point here is simple: The best antidote to Trumpian demagoguery -- or Cruz's radical right agenda -- is an optimistic vision for enabling working Americans to adapt to change and create a new shared prosperity in the digital age.
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We'll slurp that down, then retire to the couch for the first few chapters of Jane Mayer's new book, "Dark Money," about the Koch brothers' fortune and its influence on both the radical right and American politics at large.
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Populist political forces succeed by saying what their audiences want to hear and, as David Art, a political scientist at Tufts University, argued in his book, "Inside the Radical Right", are thus fundamentally inimical to professional structures and processes.
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Over the course of Glazer's life, moreover, whatever threats extremist movements of the left posed to liberalism eventually paled in significance to the triumph of the radical right, and especially its all-but-complete takeover of the Republican Party.
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The journalist David Neiwert's "Militialand USA: The Rise of the Radical Right in the Age of Trump," to be published by Verso, will examine how Mr. Trump's campaign helped extreme right-wing voices find a place in the mainstream.
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Tarun Das, a former director general of the Confederation of Indian Industry, said that Mr. Modi had worked behind the scenes to stop the radical right-wingers in his party, and that the prime minister would do so again.
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The concern, shared by many Austrians, is that the fraternities' deep roots in the party run the risk of mainstreaming the radical right into national life, giving extremists a powerful soapbox to address their politics to a broader audience.
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"One of the sickest and most upsetting parts of this for me is that the killings, the actual terrorist attacks, are forms of propaganda for the statements," said Mr. Feldman of the Center for Analysis of the Radical Right.
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According to the Anti-Defamation League, "domestic extremist killers" killed more people in 2015 than any other year since Oklahoma City in 1995 (In fact, here is a list of radical right wing terrorist plots, conspiracies and attacks since 1995).
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Expressed also through a surge of support in this past year for the radical right Alternative for Germany (AfD), now the largest opposition party in the Bundestag (federal parliament) and present in the government of every one of the country's states.
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The Finns party, the country's second-biggest parliamentary group, on Saturday chose Jussi Halla-aho as its new leader and replaced three deputy leaders with anti-immigrant hardliners, steering the moderate protest party towards a more radical right-wing populism.
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The two senators are moderates compared to the average radical right-wing Republican, and they previously demonstrated that they don't always vote along party lines when they declined to go along with the Affordable Care Act repeal proposal last year.
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BERLIN (Reuters) - Germany's far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) has overtaken the center-left Social Democrats (SPD), a poll showed on Tuesday, days after some of the most violent protests by radical right-wingers the country has seen in decades.
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In theory the Republicans have control of a unified government in Washington, but in reality the party is too internally divided to govern by itself, especially given tension between the radical right-wingers of the House Freedom Caucus and establishment Republicans.
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BUDAPEST (Reuters) - Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is likely to focus on business rather than history in Budapest as he looks to deepen ties with Hungary, whose leader Viktor Orban's flirtation with the radical right has unnerved Jews living there.
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In sharp contrast, the FN is an exceptionally well-organized party, with tens of thousands of members all across France (and beyond), and a very elaborate election program, which is integrated into a decades-old tradition of French radical-right ideology.
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Since 9/11, radical right-wing groups have committed far more major acts of terrorism than Muslim extremists; reports of anti-Semitic violence and harassment rose sharply last year, part of a larger, multi-year spike in US hate crimes.
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But while the radical right-wing populist party Alternative for Germany grew stronger, even outflanking Ms. Merkel's party in her home state of Mecklenburg-West Pomerania, the chancellor's erstwhile best quality — stoicism — has flipped into its unhealthy cousin: leadership fatigue.
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Many prominent conservative commentators — among them some of the president's most ardent defenders — quickly pointed the finger at the left, accusing unnamed liberal agitators of sending the packages in a ploy to make Republicans look radical right before the midterms.
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"Founded in 22016 by anti-immigrant activist and author Peter Brimelow, the Center for American Unity has served to promote the work of white supremacists, anti-Semites and others on the radical right," the nonprofit watchdog writes on its website.
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Jane Mayer, a writer for New Yorker Magazine and author of "Dark Money: The Hidden History of the Billionaires Behind the Rise of the Radical Right," highlights how those such as the Koch brothers use "weaponized philanthropy" to influence elections.
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Fresh from playing a in the comedy Swiss Army Man, the 26-year-old Harry Potter alum plays an FBI agent who goes undercover as a neo-Nazi to take down a radical right-wing terrorist group in the new thriller Imperium.
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I believed that this is where we were heading, because if you block off the political process from answering people's needs, as the radical right managed to do throughout Barack Obama's two terms on so many major issues, then people get frustrated.
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In Britain, the Conservative Party's decision to try to outflank from the right the U.K. Independence Party, the populist radical-right party that under Nigel Farage (a big fan of Donald Trump) helped bring about Brexit — delivered it only a pyrrhic victory.
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" In a March 2018 paper, "We Were The Robots: Automation in Manufacturing and Voting Behavior in Western Europe," Massimo Anelli, Italo Colantone and Piero Stanig, of Bocconi University in Milan, found that "robot shock increases support for nationalist and radical right parties.
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Women by and large were deterred from voting for the radical right by other things, including the populist right's "political style, occasional association with historic violence, stigmatization by parts of the elite and the general public" — in other words, their outlier-ness.
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Most journalists readily denounced violent racist organizations like neo-Nazis and the Ku Klux Klan, and eyed with suspicion the growing "radical right," a label that covered everything from the John Birch Society to the American Nazi Party to, for some, the National Review.
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It's the kind of tool that you can use in a pinch when your players need to plan an ambush, or when the last session ended with them making a radical right turn into a neighboring kingdom that the game master never thought about.
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Support for the NPD has dwindled as Germany's migration crisis has changed right wing politics, with parties that express dissatisfaction with immigration growing far bigger than ever before, but also trying to distance themselves from the radical right fringe to win over more mainstream voters.
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"If politics becomes a competition about who can talk the toughest about refugees and minorities, the radical right will always win" Frederiksen said Thursday that she hopes to form a single-party minority government, with support from other parties on an issue-to-issue basis.
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But in "The European Mainstream and the Populist Radical Right", a new book, Pontus Odmalm and Eve Hepburn of the University of Edinburgh conclude that there is "no immediate pattern" suggesting that the availability of mainstream alternatives to the populist right weakens the latter's electoral performance.
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Once ignored in the interest of short term political advantage, these bastions of liberty become weakened and precedent is established for ignoring them in future cases when the shoe may be on the other foot, when the radical right is seeking to impeach a Democratic president.
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Having grown up in Oklahoma and gone East for college, the author of this account of "the secret hub of the radical right" saw the dismay of friends back home at the gutting of environmental regulations and public education, and a marked deterioration in public health.
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The offending items often lurk among "refugees welcome" notes, soccer club adhesives and the odd stick-on circus ad — often with encoded slogans like "We want to live" or "Punish child abusers to the utmost extent" and with web addresses for shadowy groups from the radical right.
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"I don't doubt that it can grow, not just due to de-platformed extremists washing up there, but no doubt libertarians or others concerned about greater restrictions on the main social media sites," said Matthew Feldman, director of the Center of Analysis of the Radical Right.
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Unlike in the United States, where the radical right regularly agitates and holds noisy and visible rallies, "in France they have very little visibility," said Jean-Yves Camus, a specialist of the far-right at the French Institute for International and Strategic Affairs, a think tank.
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" As the political scientist Sheri Berman has written, "Embracing concepts such as 'people' and 'nation' that the radical right was exploiting successfully elsewhere, the [Social Democratic] SAP was able to claim the mantle of national unity and social solidarity during the chaos of the early 1930s.
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Unlike other radical right parties in Europe, the Austrian Freedom Party has been a serious force since the mid 1980s and has strong support among younger voters (a few years ago, one survey suggested the party enjoyed support from up to 42 percent of young Austrians).
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"I think this is racist legislation by a radical right-wing government that is creating radical laws and is planting the seeds to create an apartheid state," Bassam Bisharah, 71, a doctor in the municipality of Ma'alot-Tarshiha where Jews and Arabs live together, told Reuters.
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"For all these successes in the past two years I had to be ready to withstand a lot and also put up with a lot, from the rat poem to the proximity to radical right-wing groups and the 'isolated incidents' that kept coming back," Kurz said.
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Last year brought "a substantial emboldening of the radical right, and that is largely due to the actions of President Trump, who's tweeted out hate materials and made light of the threats to our society posed by hate groups," Heidi Beirich, director of the SPLC's Intelligence Project, told reporters.
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In an essay published in 1955, "The Sources of the Radical Right", Seymour Martin Lipset tried to explain why the post-war boom, now remembered as a golden era for the economy, also gave rise to paranoid political movements such as the John Birch Society and to McCarthyism.
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"They [social democrats] shouldn't be purely focused on winning back the voters who went to the radical right, because when push comes to shove, a significant part of that electorate is deeply nativist," Cas Mudde, a scholar of the European far right at the University of Georgia, tells me.
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Other organizations documenting hate-driven violence include ProPublica in its Documenting Hate project, the Southern Poverty Law Center with Hatewatch, a platform that tracks and analyzes radical right activities, and Muslim Advocates, with a map of hate-related incidents reflecting the Islamophobia that has been rampant since the election.
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"This is racist legislation by a radical right-wing government that is creating radical laws, and is planting the seeds to create an apartheid state," said physician Bassam Bisharah, 71, a resident of Ma'alot Tarshiha, a municipality in northern Israel created by linking a Jewish and an Arab town.
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Drawing upon libraries and archives in five different countries, Martin's work is a dazzling transnational history of ideas and institutions as well as a major contribution to our understanding of fascism and the Third Reich: Martin reveals how cultural initiatives unlock the political imagination of the interwar radical right.
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A radical right-wing man was filmed live as he got out of his car with the intention of entering a religious building (two mosques in Christchurch, a synagogue in Halle) to shoot at people indiscriminately using an automatic rifle - like a scene taken from a violent computer game.
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In American media Wilders is often described as "the Dutch Trump," whereas most European media place him in the broader group of European populist radical right, together with Heinz-Christian "HC" Strache's Austrian Freedom Party (ÖVP), Marine Le Pen's National Front (FN), and Frauke Petry's Alternative for Germany (AfD).
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Since the turn of the century, center-right parties in Italy and Austria have been periodically involved in full-blown coalition with populist radical-right parties, at least partly in the hope that doing so would expose the latter as blowhards incapable of delivering on their ramped-up rhetoric.
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His violent rhetoric about protesters -- "I'd like to punch him in the face" -- at his campaign stops and his indulgence of conspiracy theorists like Alex Jones of InfoWars, a radical right-wing radio show host, showed that he, too, was comfortable doing whatever was required to get what he wanted.
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And though he is clearly enamored by Trump, regularly tweeting his support and even incorporating some Trumpisms (like "losers"), Wilders knows his future lies in long-term alliances with European radical-right parties, which existed long before Trump came on the scene, and will be around long after his presidency.
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The ubiquity of social media, as well as the accessibility of websites such as 4chan and 8chan where the extreme-right congregate online, allowed him to immerse himself easily in extremist conversation, said Matthew Feldman, director of the Center for Analysis of the Radical Right, a Britain-based research group.
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One study, carried out across 17 countries by Swedish and Dutch scholars and published in late 2015 in an academic journal called Patterns of Prejudice, found women less likely than men to vote for what the study called the "populist radical right" — but not because women were against the ideology.
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Professor Gage never grapples with my central argument, that identity movement politics is preventing liberal Democrats from developing a vision of our common destiny that would expand our appeal and help us seize institutional power from the Republican radical right, and thereby actually protect the groups we profess to care about.
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The Intelligence Report is a magazine published by the SPLC that chronicles the "radical right" in the US. A lieutenant in the Leon County Sheriff's office in Florida, which includes Tallahassee, where ROF is based, told the local newspaper that they have not yet established any connection between Cruz and the militia.
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They were self serving and hypocritical at the least," Michael Barkun, a professor emeritus of political science at Syracuse University and an expert on the radical right, told me Friday, noting, "Segments of the extreme right that in the past never endorsed or supported a major party candidate did support Donald Trump.
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Thankfully, the historian Nancy MacLean has documented Buchanan's influence over both the Kochs and contemporary politics in a remarkable new book, Democracy in Chains, which argues that the radical right revolution engineered by Charles and his brother David is not just about accruing political and economic power, but about restricting democracy itself.
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"The Republicans are now looking for a unicorn, something that can make the radical right-wing members of the House of Representatives happy, and a bill that make simultaneously those senators that come from states that have already opted into the Affordable Care Act happy," he said Monday, according to The Boston Globe.
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"Despite powerful evidence that an established presence of local minorities fosters interethnic contact, reducing threat levels at the neighborhood level," the authors write, the larger pattern is that: rising diversity — all else being equal — increases anti-immigration sentiment and support for the populist radical right among native-born whites in the West.
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Italy has a plethora of small parties and movements with extremist ideologies, ranging from those the National Front in Italy to the ultranationalist and neo-fascist party CasaPound Italy (which can trace its origins to a squat in Rome) and Forza Nuova, a radical right, anti-immigrant party founded around 20 years ago.
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Vice President Mike Pence will chair the commission along with Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach, who reportedly advised the president to investigate voter fraud in the first place and has pushed anti-immigrant conspiracy theories as part of his ties to radical right-wing group, the Federation for American Immigration Reform.
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Cas Mudde, an expert on right-wing politics at the University of Georgia, defines the radical right as possessing three features: an authoritarian approach to law and order, a populist critique of elites as out of touch and corrupt, and a nativist ideology that casts immigrants as a threat to the nation.
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Center-left parties "shouldn't be purely focused on winning back the voters who went to the radical right, because when push comes to shove, a significant part of that electorate is deeply nativist," Cas Mudde, a scholar of the European far right at the University of Georgia, told me in a 2017 interview.
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Overall, populists of the right tend to combine populism with some form of nativism — for example, the populist radical right parties of France's National Front and Geert Wilders' Dutch Party for Freedom (PVV); or neoliberalism, such as neoliberal populist parties like the United Kingdom Independence Party (UKIP) and politicians like former Brazilian President Fernando Collor.
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While the radical right rejoices over the victory in the Alabama Republican Senate primary of Roy Moore, who advocates mass impeachment of federal judges who do not put his theological conservatism over the Constitution in their rulings, the eyes of Alabama and the nation now turn to Doug Jones, his Democratic opponent in the Dec.
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RICK, Cedar Rapids, Iowa My state also has its radical-right, but you don't ever hear talk of secession, maybe because we stayed loyal during the Civil War, or maybe because as much as some people hate the Federal Government, they also don't want to go without the benefits that come with being part of the United States.
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Glazer and his friends had called attention to the emergence of the radical right in the 1950s and developed theories to explain it; their major contribution was the notion that those attracted to rightist movements, first McCarthy and then Goldwater and his followers, were losing status and sought in authoritarian politics a way to make up for their loss.
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The political dynamics that over a decade ago seemed to be pushing Latin America in a fairer, more equitable direction have broken down dramatically in recent years, exposing the seedy underbelly of a mode of politics that progressive forces must confront and challenge if they want to rebuild a popular base to resist the rise of the radical right wing.
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While PewDiePie only follows a few hundred people on Twitter, many of them have ties to the aforementioned internet movements, communities, and subcultures that loosely define the alt-right, which include Gamergate, Mens' Rights activism, Pick-Up Artist communities, incels, Reddit's r/The_Donald community, some atheists and skeptics subcultures, and other online communities that foster white supremacy and radical right-wing extremism.
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I had conversations about the project five or six years ago, when I worked at Christianity Today; that's only worth saying because A Hidden Life feels as if it could have been written last year, a movie created in direct critique of our age, in which radical right-wing nationalist sentiment and white supremacy too often cloaks itself in the disguise of Christianity.
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Fred C. Koch, the father of noted right-wing billionaires Charles and David Koch, partnered with the Nazis to increase the Third Reich's ability to generate fossil fuels in the lead up to World War II, according toDark Money: The Hidden History of the Billionaires Behind the Rise of the Radical Right, a new book on the Koch family due to be released on January 19.
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" In "Why the Right Went Wrong," Dionne quotes Columbia professor Alan F. Westin's prediction from 1962—"The future of the Birch Society and the radical right will very largely be shaped by the way business, conservatives, and the Republican Party police the boundaries of their movement"—and updates it with the observation that "those boundaries were to become quite porous with the rise of the Tea Party.
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The trope of "cultural Marxism" has been steadily gaining traction among the broad and diverse entity that is the radical right (although, hating diversity, would baulk at you saying so), where it serves as an umbrella term variously responsible for such un-American and anti-Western ills as atheism, secularism, political correctness, gay rights, sexual liberation, feminism, affirmative action, liberalism, socialism, anarchism, and, above all, multiculturalism.
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" The petition asks Trump to "apologize for energizing the radical right by running a racist and xenophobic campaign; Demonstrate that he is changing directions by firing his chief strategist, Steve Bannon, the person who turned Breitbart News into a platform for white supremacists; and Take concrete action to undo the harm he has caused, starting with a directive to federal agencies to take the danger of white supremacy seriously.
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As the first black woman to nab the top prize in 2016, and then the first writer to win it three years in a row thanks to her 2017 and 2018 repeat wins, Jemisin's 2018 win became a moment of convergence in which literary hopepunk evolved into real-world activism — a show of defiance in an ongoing battle against radical right-wing extremism within the sci-fi/fantasy community.
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You could argue that neither radical left nor radical right appears willing to accept there might be more shades of grey than are allowed for by one particular entrenched perspective — as they fight their take-no-prisoners culture wars via the tech platforms that give them the power to turn a personal viewpoint into a weapon of mass media destruction, aiming to level the landscape of debate via the tribalism of fervent follower armies.
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There is a lot going on in Dutch politics right now – the disappearance of big parties, the implosion of the Social Democrats, and the ascendance of GreenLeft, which might become the biggest left-wing party in the Netherlands – but most international media have paid an inordinate amount of attention to the radical right-wing Geert Wilders and his "race for first place" with Prime Minister Mark Rutte of the conservative People's Party for Freedom and Democracy (VVD).
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