Image: From “How Extremism Went Mainstream.”

2024

Will Carless: Far-right extremist groups show surging growth.

CNN: The ‘mainstreaming’ of ‘hateful and dehumanizing rhetoric’ in right-wing media is leading to violence, experts say.

Tim Dickinson: Trump and the GOP’s Fascist Rhetoric Has Broad Appeal. Poll: “There is a significant market for openly authoritarian ideologies in the United States,” says an academic who oversaw the new poll.

Laura Santhanam: 1 in 5 Americans think violence may solve U.S. divisions, poll finds.

2023

David Neiwert: How Wingnuts Made Violent Extremism the New Normal.

Aurelien Mondon: Look to the mainstream to explain the rise of the far right.

NPR: In Florida, far-right groups look to seize the moment.

TIME: Startling New Poll Finds Political Violence Gaining a Mainstream Foothold.

2022

Hannah Allam: A rural Washington school board race shows how far-right extremists are shifting to local power. The establishment candidate thought she was a shoo-in, but she hadn’t contended with the home-schooling, anti-masking member of the far-right Three Percent movement.

Annika Brockschmidt: Marjorie Taylor Greene’s Genocide Rhetoric Creates a Permission Structure for the Right — But Permission to do What?

Christopher Mathias:Living With The Far-Right Insurgency In Idaho: A radical GOP faction, in open alliance with extremists, is seizing power and targeting its opponents with cruelty. Some wonder: Is it time to leave?

New York Times: For Trump’s Backers in Congress, ‘Devil Terms’ Help Rally Voters: In vilifying tweets and speeches, G.O.P. lawmakers who contested the election have far outpaced other Republicans and Democrats in fueling polarization.

Tess Owen: From Charlottesville to Mar-a-Lago: Nick Fuentes’ White Nationalist Journey. Despite his rhetoric growing increasingly vile over the years, the white nationalist has only moved closer to conservative political power.

PBS: Mainstream presence of Proud Boys, other extreme groups creates mass radicalization fears.

Ishaan Tharoor: The mainstreaming of the West’s far right is complete.

Odette Yousef:

• Why fringe movements now include middle-class Americans with jobs and families.
• Extremism experts worry a QAnon theory is making into the mainstream political right.
• Far-right militant groups align with issue-oriented groups ahead of midterms.

Older

Hannah Allam: Right-Wing Embrace Of Conspiracy Is ‘Mass Radicalization,’ Experts Warn.

Elaine Godfrey: How a Nazi Made the Ballot in Illinois: The strange candidacy of Arthur Jones points to failures of democratic safeguards on every level.

Ibram X. Kendi: White Terrorists Give Political Cover to Other Americans’ Prejudices.

Christopher Mathias:At CPAC, Extremists On Stage And Off: The annual conference served as yet another reminder of how the conservative movement in America is joined at the hip with the white nationalist movement.