Both the leadership of the Democratic Party and the “moderate” wing of the Republican Party seem obsessed with challenging Trumpism by calling…
Chip Berlet
Chip Berlet is senior analyst at Political Research Associates in the Boston area. Berlet is co–author of Right-Wing Populism in America: Too Close for Comfort (Guilford, 2000) and editor of Eyes Right! Challenging the Right Wing Backlash (South End Press, 1995), both of which received a Gustavus Myers Center Award for outstanding scholarship on the subject of human rights and bigotry in North America.
Helping organizers and strategists to understanding the lure of right-wing populism and how it bends people toward bigotry
Centrist Democrats provided lackluster support for their Party's ostensible Presidential candidate, the late Senator George McGovern, during the 1972 election campaign. McGovern,…
An international network of conspiracy theorists is pressing their support of the brutal Syrian Assad regime in an alliance with neofascists and…
In this excerpt from the DVD "Right Wing Populism in the USA" (recorded at the 2010 Z Media Institute), Berlet describes…
A conundrum of right-wing populist movements like the tea bag and town hall protests is that they often mobilize in ways that…
If the attacks on the legislative agenda of the Obama administration seem to be coming from all directions, that’s the desired outcome…
The headline is typical of the ultraconservative panic: "GOP condemns ‘socialist’ Obama, Democrats." This from the May 21 2009 edition of the…
The alleged shooter at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum today has an online book excerpt revealing his deep roots in historic White…
The National Right to Work Committee (NRTWC) is a major player in the effort to block the pro-union "Card Check" legislation officially…
