Is pandemic isolation pushing people towards extremism?
While the UK and, indeed, most of Europe has been under some form of lockdown over the last 12 months, there has been growing discussion about the detrimental effects of…
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Beware! Populism in Conjunction with Conspiracy Theories Might be Bad for Your Health (Part 2)
Yet Germany, explored in the first part of this piece, is hardly an exceptional case. Take the United States. A recent study has shown that “rampant partisanship” has severely hampered…
Europe’s Far Right Fails to Capitalize on COVID-19
The European radical right seems to have failed to develop coherent responses to the COVID-19 pandemic. Europe’s radical-right parties have quickly understood the benefit they can derive from criticizing their…
Understanding the Dynamics of the Far Right
The extreme right is not a single entity but rather is a highly diverse, polycratic movement set across countless small organizations, or groupuscules. While this article is not about the…
Right-Wing Push For Premature Reopenings Will Prolong Pandemic
President Trump, GOP governors, and members of his base who are pushing to reopen too soon while Dr. Fauci warns of “needless suffering and death.” In an interview on Fox…
Under lockdown, Germany’s PEGIDA goes to YouTube
Germany’s far-right group PEGIDA is mobilizing weekly ‘virtual marches’ livestreamed on YouTube. On a Monday evening in early April 2020, around 1,000 users are waiting for a YouTube livestream, hosted…
ANTI-GOVERNMENT IDEOLOGY IN THE TIMES OF COVID-19
Throughout ideological contradictions and changing perception of events on the ground, the Oath Keepers’ messaging remained consistent around one key element: the existence of a deep-state plot against US President…
Contesting Class in the Lockdown Protests
“Five, 10 years from now—different party. You’re going to have a worker’s party.” These words, uttered by Donald Trump in the May of 2016, might at first appear prophetic given…