Nazis, Nihilism, and the Evolution of the Fringe Right

The Assignment with Audie Cornish

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News Commentary, News, Politics

4.6 • 844 Ratings

🗓️ 8 August 2024

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

CNN’s Elle Reeve did her best-known reporting during the 2017 Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, when she followed neo-Nazis over a weekend of violent protests. Seven years later, her new book looks at how that movement — born in online communities of mostly white men — gave rise to extremist thinking that is now threaded through today’s political discourse. Audie talks with Reeve about reporting on Nazis, the mainstreaming of their ideology, and why she started “Black Pill: How I Witnessed the Darkest Corners of the Internet Come to Life, Poison Society, and Capture American Politics” with a story about a dead cat. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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1:17.5	like a white nationalist blogger was like filming the whole thing.
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