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Undercover with the New Alt-Right / Amanda Moore

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This Is Hell!

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4.9937 Ratings

🗓️ 6 September 2023

⏱️ 93 minutes

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Amanda Moore on her article at The Nation, “Undercover with the New Alt-Right: For 11 months, I pretended to be a far-right extremist. I discovered a radical youth movement trying to infiltrate the Republican Party.” And Jeff Dorchen flies the dogwhistling skies.

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0:00.0

Oh, my head and my head and my head and my head and bone.

0:07.0

And you don't don't need him.

0:14.0

This is hell.

0:17.0

The future ain't what it used to be.

0:22.0

This is. The future is pretty freaking frightening when you consider the growing popularity of the far right in the United States.

0:31.5

According to the Pew Research Center, political

0:33.7

polarization has doubled, that's right, doubled in the last 30 years. If you are a millennial or older, you may remember political polarization being pretty

0:47.9

damn high back in the early 90s when Republicans were having fits about President Bill Clinton and

0:55.8

Democrats seeing Republicans as attempting to radically, radically change

1:00.5

the United States of America. Of course Clinton would go along with

1:04.4

Republicans on all sorts of neoliberal legislation that even his fellow

1:07.9

Democrats were opposing like his support for NAFTA which devastated jobs in

1:12.0

the U.S. and the environmental, in the environment throughout the region.

1:15.8

The Telecommunications Act of 1996, which handed radio over to corporations pushing a far right

1:21.0

libertarian agenda, and we'll talk about that in a little bit

1:24.0

and Glass-Steagall which deregulated banks and played a role in causing what we now

1:30.3

know as the Great Recession. In fact, even compared to the era of political antagonism,

1:36.0

to that era of political antagonism. Political polarization today is still at an all-time high.

1:41.9

On the far right, the polarization has taken the form of racist,

1:44.9

misogynist, anti-Semitic, mostly bros who support actually endorse inequality,

1:50.5

threaten violence and regularly practice intimidation online and

1:54.3

at public events but only when they have a lot of their kind around them for

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