The Far Right in America

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