Donald Trump, the anti-Muslim far right and the new conservative revolution

This article explores the "counter-jihad", a transnational field of anti-Muslim political action that emerged in the mid-2000s, becoming a key tributary of the recent far-right insurgency and an important influence on the Trump presidency. The article draws on thematic analysis of content...

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Published in:Ethnic and racial studies 2020-12, Vol.43 (16), p.211-230
Main Author: Pertwee, Ed
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Activism
anti-Muslim
Conservatism
Content analysis
Counter-jihad
Discourse
Discourses
Discrimination
Donald Trump
Extremism
far right
Fascism
Infrastructure
Insurgency
Jihad
Muslims
Nazism
Political action
Political activism
Political discourse
Politics
Presidents
Racism
Republicanism
revolutionary conservatism
Right wing politics
Socialism
Trump, Donald J
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Summary:This article explores the "counter-jihad", a transnational field of anti-Muslim political action that emerged in the mid-2000s, becoming a key tributary of the recent far-right insurgency and an important influence on the Trump presidency. The article draws on thematic analysis of content from counter-jihad websites and interviews with movement activists, sympathizers and opponents, in order to characterize the counter-jihad's organizational infrastructure and political discourse and to theorize its relationship to fascism and other far-right tendencies. Although the political discourses of the counter-jihad, Trumpian Republicanism and the avowedly racist "Alt-Right" are not identical, I argue that all three tendencies share a common, counterrevolutionary temporal structure. Consequently, like "classical" Italian Fascism and German National Socialism, they can be seen as historically and contextually-specific forms of "revolutionary conservatism".
ISSN:0141-9870
1466-4356
DOI:10.1080/01419870.2020.1749688