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- Title
THE NORMALIZATION OF NATIVISM: FROM EXTREMIST GROUPS TO THE OVAL OFFICE.
- Authors
Bloch, Katrina Rebecca; Myers, Quintin W. O.
- Abstract
The Southern Poverty Law Center (2016) suggests that the drop in nativist extremist groups from 319 in 2010 to 17 groups in 2016 is due to the consistency of their ideology within mainstream political discourse, thereby, "making the nativist extremist groups' activism unnecessary." The commonalities between President Trump and nativist groups demonstrates some of the movement of nativist rhetoric into mainstream political discourse. We compare the discourse of 52 nativist extremist groups' websites with a sample of President Trump's campaign speeches and presidential debates. Our analyses show that both Trump and the nativist extremist groups draw from race, gender and class ideology to construct a criminal immigrant and terrorist "other" and promote building a physical barrier between the U.S. and Mexico.
- Subjects
NATIVISM; OVAL Office (White House, Washington, D.C.); SOUTHERN Poverty Law Center; ACTIVISM; POLITICAL debates
- Publication
Race, Gender & Class, 2018, Vol 25, Issue 2/3, p179
- ISSN
1082-8354
- Publication type
Article