The Evolving Radical Right in the Early Twenty-First Century

This book investigates the dynamics of expansion and normalization of the radical right in the early twenty-first century. The radical right's popularity with voters dramatically increased, it even enabled twice the election of Trump as a chief executive in the United States. The main focus of this volume is on the forces in a variety of nations where this occurred, and why this phenomenon happened at this point in history. This book illustrates both the diversity and commonality of the radical right. It is multidisciplinary and international. It examines the topic of the radical right resurgence from the perspectives of history, economics, political sciences, law, sociology, and applied psychoanalysis. It is comparative in that the radical right is discussed from the national perspective of the United States, France, Italy, Germany, the United Kingdom, Turkey, Iran, and Russia. It relies on empirical and theoretical outlooks to make sense of a complex subject matter. This book will be of interest to students and researchers of the radical right, populism, and extremism.

Ken Fuchsman is Emeritus Faculty at the University of Connecticut, where he taught history and later interdisciplinary studies. He was also Executive Program Director of the Bachelor of General Studies program. His previous publications include Psychoanalytic and Historical Perspectives on the Leadership of Donald Trump (Routledge, 2020), Healing, Rebirth and the Work of Michael Eigen (Routledge, 2021), and Sigmund Freud's Inner Divisions (Routledge, 2026). Brigitte Demeure holds a master's degree in intercultural negotiation and a doctorate in history. She has worked for many years in international trade, but also for various international solidarity NGOs defending workers' rights. She has authored the book La figure maternelle dans la vie politique française: 1789-1914 (Editions universitaires d'Avignon, 2023) and presented on the Radio France Culture program, Concordance des temps. She has received two ACOPSA (American College of Psychoanalysts) awards in 2014: a Clinical Research Award and a Distinguished Citizen Award.

Introduction SECTION 1: OVERVIEW OF THE RADICAL RIGHT 1. The Radical Right and Populism in Europe and the U.S. 2. 3. Resentment and Fear of Loss in the Radical Right 4. How Trump and the Radical Right Threaten(ed) America's Democracy 5. Donald Trump and the Eroding of the American Constitution 6. Donald Trump and the Evolving Radical Right 7. Hate Among American Extremist White Supremacists: Female and Male 8. Transnational History of White Nationalism: Radical Ideologies and Terrorist Practices 9. From the "Nouvelle Droite" to the Alt-Right, via the German "Conservative Revolution" and Nazism 10. "Declaration of the Rights of Nations and Peoples" by the French Far Right 11. Reconquête! and Rassemblement National: Two Far-Right Parties at the Ballot Box 12. Preventing People from Thinking: A New Form of Political Censorship? 14. How the Radical Right has Used the Coronavirus Crisis to Fuel Conspiracy Theories: Psychoanalytic and Socio-Psychological Considerations 15. Pushing One's Own Advantage to the Detriment of Others: Social Darwinism as a Core Delusion of Right-Wing Politics 16. Identity by Refusing Mourning and Guilt? Traumatic Reasons and Abysses for Right-Wing Identity Politics 17. Against Fascism but not Antifascists: the Political Strategy of Fratelli d'Italia 18. Anti-Democracy in Turkey, Iran, Russia