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One new book that might be of interest is Alt America, The Rise of the Radical Right in the

Age of Trump by David Nywert, the seemingly sudden national prominence of white supremacist xenophobes, militia

leaders, and mysterious alt-right figures mystifies many. But the extreme right has been growing steadily since the 1990s with the rise of

Patriot militias. Following 9-11, conspiracy theorists found fresh life and in virulent reaction to the first

black US president, militant racists have come out of the woodwork.

Nurtured by a powerful right-wing media, the far-right Tea Party Movement Conservatives and Republican

activists found common ground.

Figures such as Stephen Bannon, Milo Yaneropolis, and Alex Jones now haunt the reports of mainstream journalism.

Investigative reporter David Nijwert has been tracking extremists for more than two decades.

In Alt America, he provides a deeply research report on the growth

of fascism and far right terrorism, the violence of which in the last decades has surpassed anything inspired by Islamist or other ideologies in the United States. Alt America, the rise of the radical right in the age of Trump by David Nijwert out podcast from Jacobin magazine. My name is Daniel

Denver and I'm broadcasting from Providence, Rhode Island.

As I feel like I've been touching on quite a lot recently,

it's odd that people consider Donald Trump

such an aberration from the norm in a country that was defined

from settlement, slavery, and revolution through Western expansion and Indian

removal to Chinese exclusion and the National Origins Quota Act by white settler colonialist empire.

We like to think of slavery and native genocide as heirs made in our country's long preordained and redemptive march to a more perfect

union.

Trump upsets that fiction.

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