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Nov 21 2023
Opinion
A mask-off week for right-wing antisemitism
Prominent right-wing commentators with major platforms and significant influence over the Republican Party spent last week airing their grievances about the Jews, an unprecedented foray into antisemitism that drew cheers from white nationalists for its explicit nature.
Right-wing commentators often promote classic antisemitic tropes in a more coded fashion. Former President Donald
Media Matters
Nov 25 2023
Analysis
Geert Wilders is just the start of Europe’s Right-wing wave
The dam is breached. The “shock election victory” of Geert Wilders and his Party for Freedom (PVV) will reverberate through all of Europe. The Dutch people decided to cast their vote for the Right-wing firebrand — and massively so, at least considering the conditions of the country’s parliamentary system. With a notoriously high number of political parties participating in elections, 23% of
UnHerd
Nov 30 2023
Opinion
Chicago mayor warns of right-wing extremists fueling migrant hate
Brandon Johnson, Chicago's Democratic mayor, this week kicked off the Unity Initiative, a program that's partnering with churches to help migrants — many of whom have been forced to sleep on streets outside Chicago police stations — find housing and access social services.
And he denounced conservative pundits and politicians trying to sow division between the arriving migrants and
MSNBC
Nov 29 2023
News
Chicago mayor targets Lightfoot, 'right-wing extremism' for 'chaos' in Chicago
Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson said he "inherited" the Windy City’s migrant crisis from his predecessor, former Mayor Lori Lightfoot, during a press conference touting construction of the city’s first government-run migrant tent encampment.
"Look, the international crisis that I inherited six months ago, I’ve made it very clear that we are going to make sure that we remove people out of
Fox News (Online News)
Nov 19 2023
News
Argentina elects ‘shock therapy’ right-wing populist as president
Argentinian voters on Sunday picked as their new president right-wing populist Javier Milei, who intends to swap out the peso for the dollar, believes climate change is a “socialist lie,” and wants to loosen the country’s stringent gun laws. Milei, a libertarian economist who describes himself as an “anarcho capitalist,” had been gaining in popularity by lambasting what he called the “
New York Daily News
Oct 24 2023
News
Emmer Drops Speaker Bid After Right-Wing Backlash
Representative Tom Emmer of Minnesota, the No. 3 House Republican, dropped his bid for speaker on Tuesday hours after securing his divided party’s nomination, after a swift backlash from the right, including former President Donald J. Trump, left his candidacy in shambles.
Mr. Emmer’s abrupt exit signaled that Republicans were as far as ever from breaking a deadlock that has left
New York Times (News)
Oct 19 2023
News
Speaker Flop Sweat: Right-Wing Media Inflames the GOP
Inside the Hive host Brian Stelter breaks down the GOP mess in Congress with Vanity Fair national political reporter Abigail Tracy, who has been covering the Speaker fracas from the Capitol, and Brian Rosenwald, the author of Talk Radio’s America. They discuss Jim Jordan’s rise from fringe firebrand to the party’s pick, and how right-wing media fuels Republican dysfunction and extremism. “It’s
Vanity Fair
Nov 02 2023
News
Right-wing media personalities cheer Tommy Tuberville's crusade blocking military promotions
Sen. Tommy Tuberville’s (R-AL) blockade of hundreds of military promotions that require congressional approval has generated intense backlash from Senate Republicans and national security experts. Despite the GOP’s vocal dissatisfaction and warnings of long-lasting consequences for military readiness, many right-wing media figures have thrown their full support behind Tuberville’s anti-woke
Media Matters
Sep 14 2023
News
Kevin McCarthy stares down another right-wing revolt
Facing renewed threats to his speakership, Kevin McCarthy is making a strategic bet: his critics don’t have the votes to oust him – and if they do, he’ll grind it out on the floor again as he did back in January. The speaker is fully prepared to ride out the coming storm and move ahead with a short-term spending bill to fund the government, despite repeated warnings from his right flank that
CNN (Online News)