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    Making Sense of the Alt-Right
    Making Sense of the Alt-Right
    Making Sense of the Alt-Right
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    Making Sense of the Alt-Right

    Written by George Hawley

    Narrated by Eric Jason Martin

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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.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherTantor Media, Inc
    Release dateFeb 20, 2018
    ISBN9781977373724
    Making Sense of the Alt-Right
    Author

    George Hawley

    George Hawley is associate professor of political science at the University of Alabama. He is the author of a number of books, including Making Sense of the Alt-Right, Right-Wing Critics of American Conservatism, and White Voters in Twenty-First Century America.

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      Hooboy, not sure how well this will age, especially as it seems to have been sent to print before the events of Charlottesville which definitely places blood on their hands. But for now, it's a good academic snapshot of the alt-right, what it is and what it isn't (I think to the larger populace many of the alt-lite examples are still under the broader umbrella of alt-right, though I get the unrepentant white nationalists are going to have the stricter definition of who's in their club). Traces genealogy of the movement and compares it to other conservative branches.