Table of Contents
Preface Eviane Leidig 11
Authoritarianism Revisited 15
The Psychology of a Fascist Leader: Hitler's "Blond Beast" Reinhard Heydrich Chris Webb 17
Hegel and Fascism Henry Mead 21
The 'Silent Majority': Populist Cliché or Warning? Aristotle Kallis 25
How Fascists Have Used Panics to Consolidate Power Roland Clark 30
Can the Radical Right's Reductionist Narrative Withstand Real-World Complexity? Alan Waring 32
Alternative Epistemologies of the Radical Right: How Grand Narratives and the Quest for Truth Offer Recognition and a Sense of Belonging Mario Peucker 38
Radical Right Voters and Democratic Support Nicolas Bichay 41
Nationalism and Memory 45
Grieving Greater Hungary: Trianon, Orbán, and the Hungarian Radical Right Katherine Kondor 47
An "Ambivalent Day": How the AfD Attempts to Re-frame the 8TH May as Day to Commemorate German Victimhood Sophie Schmalenberger 51
Putin's Amendments to Russia's Constitution Sparks Debate About Russian Nationalism Valery Engel 56
Eco-fascism "Proper": The Curious Case of Greenline Front Bernhard Forchtner Balša Lubarda 67
Terrorism and Political Violence 73
A New Wave of Right-Wing Terrorism Reem Ahmed Maik Fielitz 75
Germany's Terrorist Attack: Migrant Communities Have Lost Trust Barbara Manthe 79
Far-Right Terrorism is Global, But Coverage is Not: Hindu Nationalist Violence in India Eviane Leidig 83
In Germany, Anti-semitism on Social Media Can Be Linked to Offline Violence Monika Hübscher 87
Does Norway Have a Neo-Nazi Terrorist Problem? Mette Wiggen 91
Canada Filed the First Incel Terrorism Charge. How Do We Combat This Threat? Cristina Ariza 95
The Covid-19 Pandemic 99
COVID-19 Could Be a Harbinger of Authoritarianism Dan Stone 101
Anti-government Ideology in the Times of COVID-19 Jaclyn Fox 105
The Radical Right is Weaponizing COVID-19 Online Bethan Johnson 114
Under Lockdown, Germany's PEGIDA Goes to YouTube Sabine Volk 118
Europe's Far-Right Fails to Capitalize on COVID-19 Jean-Yves Camus 122
Quo Vadis, Europe? Coping with Old and New Crises Ruth Wodak 127
COVID-19 Will Have Long-lasting Consequences for International Migration Michelle L. O'Brien Maureen A. Eger 132
How COVID and Syria Conspiracies Introduce Fascism to the Left: The Red-Brown Media Spectrum Emmi Bevensee 137
QAnon: A Conspiracy for Our Time Hans-Georg Betz 147
Black Lives Matter, Policing, and Military Presence 155
I Predict a Riot: An Analysis of White Supremacist Propaganda in the Wake of the George Floyd Murder Ashton Kingdon 157
"Get in the Bin!" The Far-Right "Guarding" British Monuments Callum Downes 163
Contemporary Tensions Between Blacks and Jews in America: July Fireworks and Why They Matter Ayal Feinberg 168
Is America Edging Toward a "Racial Holy War"? Leonard Weinberg 173
Nuancing "Chan-Culture": /K/and the Visual Culture of Weapons Boards Blyth Crawford 176
The Other Epidemic: White Supremacists in Law Enforcement Simon Purdue 183
No Bargain: Why Don't Bad Cops Get Fired? The Power of Police Unions Mark Potok 189
'Press the Reset Button': Right-Wing Extremism in Germany's Military Tobias Hof 194
Investigating the Radical Right's Presence in the Canadian Military Yannick Veilleux-Lepage 202
ALT-TECH 207
The Social Media Platform That Welcomes QAnon with Open Arms Greta Jasser 209
The Transnationalization of White Supremacist Discourse: The Hundred-Handers and the It's Okay to Be White Campaign Ariel Koch 214
Networked Hate: White Supremacist Activity on Telegram Jacob Davey 219
Why Do Hale Groups and Terrorists Love Telegram? Megan Squire 223
Ideology, Intellectuals, and Metapolitics 229
Did a French Far-Right Thinker Predict 2020? Chamila Liyanage 231
Why Did Heidegger Emerge as the Central Philosopher of the Far-Right? Julian Göpffarth 235
Sweden Heading Towards "Academic Freedom" as Battlefield of the Radical Right Andreas Önnerfors 239
Why is the Brazilian Right Afraid of Pablo Freire? Andrew Woods 244
The Right's War on Science & Experts Escalates Amid COVID-19 Valerio Alfonso Bruno James F. Dowries 249
What WhatsApp Conversations Reveal About the Far-Right's Ideology Ico Maly 254
Racist Occultism in the UK: Behind the Order of Nine Angles (O9A) Dominic Alessio Robert Wallis 260
Sexuality and Gender 265
The New Man and Fascism Paul Jackson 267
Incels: Alienated Men and Violence in the Digital Age Florence Keen 274
The Proud Boys Are Standing By Julia R. DeCook 279
Marching On, But Not Together: The Georgian Far Right versus Guram Kashia Michael Cole 283
The "Rainbow Nation" is Not Immune to Anti-gender Activism: Attacks on Queer Bodies and Knowledge in South Africa Haley McEwen 290
Turning Family Into a Political Weapon Miranda Christou 294
Islamophobia in Sri Lanka, or the Sterilization Obsession Carmen Aguilera-Carnerero 300
The Radical Right is Exploiting a Swedish Teen's Murder Michael Colborne 303
New Voter Strongholds 307
When Ethnic Minorities Vote for Right-Wing Populism Bàrbara Molas 309
In Bed with the Far Right in Thuringia: A Watershed Moment for Muslim CDU supporters? Özgur Özavatan 313
The German AfD Makes Appeals to Russian-Germans Maximilian Kreter Kiran Bowry 317
The Radical Right in Turmoil 323
Disunity within the Ranks? Party Expulsions in the European Radical Right: 2000-2020 James F. Downes Felix Wiebrecht Edward K. F. Chan 325
Is Italian Right-Wing Populism in Decline? Alessio Scopelliti 331
The Dusk after the Dawn: Fall of a Greek Neo-Nazi Party Vasiliki Tsagkroni 334
Countering the Radical Right 339
Collecting Hate: The Ethics of Archiving and Researching on the Radical and Far-Right Daniel Jones 341
The Many Faces of the Radical Right and How to Counter Their Threat: CARR's Report "Faces" of the Radical Right Archie Henderson 347
Treating "White Men" as a New "Suspect Community" is Not the Answer Natalie James 352
Tackling Online Radicalisation at Its Offline Roots William Baldet 356
Moving Away from Islamist Extremism: Assessing Counter Narrative Responses to the Far-Right Online William Allchorn 360
How to Counter Radical Right Narratives Head on Craig McCann 363
Can Anything Be Done Against Radical Right Misinformation? Matthias Wasser 366
The Effects of Censoring the Far-Right Online Ofra Klein 369
Is Antifa the Answer to Today's Fascism? Louie Dean Valencia-García 373
Remembering Kevin Coogan Alexander Reid Ross 381
How to Laugh Away the Far-Right: Lessons from Germany Michael C. Zeller 384
CARR 2020 Bibliography Archie Henderson 391