How the Radical Right Co-Opted Religion
While Christianity is on the decline in Europe, the effective co-option of Christian ideas and emblems among the radical right is continuing unabated.
While Christianity is on the decline in Europe, the effective co-option of Christian ideas and emblems among the radical right is continuing unabated.
Radical-right radicalization appears to be focused on global and increasingly existential scenarios rather than on domestic or national issues.
Armed robberies were often the first crimes nascent right-wing extremist organizations carried out after deciding to take the terrorist “option.”
In interrogating the far right’s persistent obsession with southern Africa, we can better understand what people like Trump, Hopkins, and terrorists like Roof, mean when they invoke it today.
The radical right uses the lack of clear definitions of hate speech to exploit its right to free speech.
In 2019, Oswald Mosley’s European vision does not feel so distant, as current affairs increasingly come to resemble the darker parts of history.
