Description

Cover — Half Title — Title Page — Copyright Page — Dedication — Table of Contents — Acknowledgments — Preface — Abbreviations — 1. Definitions: The various shades of the US far right — Notes — 2. A short history of the far right in America — 2.1 The Know Nothings — 2.2 The second coming of the Klan — 2.3 The fascist era — 2.4 The civil rights era — 2.5 The late 20th century — 3. The Tea Party paradox — Notes — 4. Wisconsin’s Sikh massacre: The real danger — 4.1 The background — 4.2 The consequences — Notes — 5. America’s new revolutionaries — 5.1 The toxic take-back — 5.2 The twin target — 5.3 The real threat — Notes — 6. America’s election and the Tea Party — 6.1 From defeat … — 6.2 … to division — Notes — 7. Is the revolution eating its children?: The Tea Party between AstroTurf and grassroots — Notes — 8. The Green Scare: Why Islamophobia is the new Red Scare — Note — 9. The Trump phenomenon and the European populist radical right — Notes — 10. The power of populism?: Not really! — 10.1 What is populism? — 10.2 Populism in the early 21st century — 10.3 Sanders, the confused social democrat — 10.4 Trump: the elitist anti-establishment candidate of the people — Notes — 11. Is the GOP a far right party? — Notes — 12. Will Donald Trump transform the (far) right in the US? — Note — 13. Donald Trump: The Great White Hope — 13.1 The radical right as a pathological normalcy — 13.2 The Trump phenomenon: moving target and blurred vision — 13.3 Trump the (political) actor — 13.4 Trumpism: a proto-ideology — 13.5 The Trump supporters: the angry white working class? — 13.6 Donald Trump: an essentially American phenomenon — Note — 14. A talk with Cas Mudde on American and European populism — Notes — 15. The far right has arrived … and it could take Washington! — Note