Hate Speech and Political Violence - Far-Right Rhetoric From the Tea Party to the Insurrection

This timely book identifies how the Tea Party and its extremist narratives laid the groundwork for the rise of Donald Trump, his MAGA movement, and the January 6, 2021, assault on the Capitol.

List of contents

Preface
1. Introduction: From the Tea Party and Donald Trump’s MAGA Extremism to January 2021
2. The Tea Party Movement, the Mass Media, and Contentious Politics
3. Online and Offline Media as Super Spreaders of Anti-Obama Conspiracy Theories
4. Donald Trump’s Incendiary Rhetoric and Political Violence
5. Partisan Conflict, Issues, and Emotions on High
6. Weaponized Words and Deeds Against Democracy
Postscript
Abbreviations
Appendix
Notes
Index

About the author

Brigitte L. Nacos is a political scientist who taught for three decades at Columbia University and the author of several books on terrorism and counterterrorism. She is also a journalist who worked for many years as U.S. correspondent for newspapers in Germany.

Yaeli Bloch-Elkon is a senior lecturer/associate professor of communications and political science and head of the International Communication program at Bar Ilan University, as well as an associate research scholar at Columbia University’s Institute for Social and Economic Research and Policy.

Robert Y. Shapiro is the Wallace S. Sayre Professor of Government in the Department of Political Science and the School of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University. The author of many books and academic articles, he received the 2022 Award for Exceptionally Distinguished Achievement from the American Association for Public Opinion Research.

Nacos, Bloch-Elkon, and Shapiro previously coauthored Selling Fear: Counterterrorism, the Media, and Public Opinion (2011).

Summary

This timely book identifies how the Tea Party and its extremist narratives laid the groundwork for the rise of Donald Trump, his MAGA movement, and the January 6, 2021, assault on the Capitol.

Product details

• Authors: Yaeli Bloch-Elkon, Bloch-Elkon Yaeli, Brigitte L. Nacos, Brigitte L. Shapiro Nacos, Nacos Brigitte L., Robert Shapiro
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 12.01.2024
• EAN: 9780231214353
• ISBN: 978-0-231-21435-3
• No. of pages: 336
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business > Society; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; Media Studies, POLITICAL SCIENCE / History & Theory, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Ideologies / Radicalism, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Violence in Society, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Process / Media & Internet, Politics & government, Political science and theory, Political ideologies and movements, Violence and abuse in society, Political structure and processes, political science; social science