13. Eve Conant, “Hate Groups Are Benefiting from Obama's Direction,” Newsweek, April 24, 2009, https://www.newsweek.com/hate-groups-are-benefiting-obamas-election-77295.
14. Ibid.
15. Ibid.
16. Ibid.
17. Ibid.
CHAPTER FOURTEEN: MAINSTREAM-ISM
1. Graeme Wood, “His Kampf,” Atlantic, June 2017, https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2017/06/his-kampf/524505/.
2. “Richard Bertrand Spencer,” Southern Poverty Law Center, https://www.splcenter.org/fighting-hate/extremist-files/individual/richard-bertrand-spencer-0.
3. Barbara Perry, “Button-Down Terror: The Metamorphosis of the Hate Movement,” Sociological Focus 33, no. 2 (November 19, 2012): 113–21, https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00380237.2000.10571161.
4. Wood, “His Kampf.”
5. Ibid.
6. Caitlin Dewey, “The Alt-Right, Explained in Its Own Words,” Washington Post, August 29, 2016, https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-intersect/wp/2016/08/29/the-alt-right-explained-in-its-own-words/?utm_term=.c95770fd4d8f.
7. “What Is the Alt-Right?” Washington Post, https://www.washingtonpost.com/video/politics/what-is-the-alt-right/2016/08/25/b275b12e-6aaf-11e6-91cb-ecb5418830e9_video.html?utm_term=.88b23404312c.
8. C. J. Ciaramella, “Some Well-Dressed White Nationalists Gathered in DC Last Weekend,” Vice, October 30, 2013, https://www.vice.com/sv/article/kwpadw/some-well-dressed-white-nationalists-gathered-in-dc-last-weekend.
9. Joseph Bernstein, “Here's How Breitbart and Milo Smuggled White Nationalism into the Mainstream,” BuzzFeed, October 5, 2017, https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/josephbernstein/heres-how-breitbart-and-milo-smuggled-white-nationalism.
10. Ibid.
11. Allum Bokhari and Milo Yiannopoulos, “An Establishment Conservative's Guide to the Alt-Right,” Breitbart, March 29, 2016, https://www.breitbart.com/tech/2016/03/29/an-establishment-conservatives-guide-to-the-alt-right/.
12. Ibid.
13. Ibid.
14. Bernstein, “Here's How Breitbart and Milo Smuggled White Nationalism.”
15. Rob Beschizza, “White Supremacy Euphemism Generator for Journalists,” Boing Boing, November 15, 2016, http://boingboing.net/2016/11/15/euphemisms.html.
16. Ibid.
17. “Nathan Benjamin Damigo,” Southern Poverty Law Center, https://www.splcenter.org/fighting-hate/extremist-files/individual/nathan-benjamin-damigo.
18. Allie Conti, “An Alt-Right Group Is Trying to Recruit College Kids Like It's a Frat,” Vice, September 12, 2017, https://www.vice.com/en_nz/article/paa7wk/an-alt-right-group-is-trying-to-recruit-college-kids-like-its-a-frat-vgtrn.
19. “David Duke,” Southern Poverty Law Center, https://www.splcenter.org/fighting-hate/extremist-files/individual/david-duke.
20. “Exclusive: David Duke on Rep. Scalise Controversy,” CNN, January 3, 2015, YouTube video, 7:41, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZZWCBvl7iAw.
21. Caitlin Dewey, “The Alt-Right, Explained in Its Own Words,” Washington Post, August 29, 2016, https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-intersect/wp/2016/08/29/the-alt-right-explained-in-its-own-words/?utm_term=.c95770fd4d8f.
CHAPTER FIFTEEN: THE TROLL KING
1. “Ted Cruz Announces 2016 Presidential Campaign (Full Speech),” ABC News, March 23, 2015, YouTube video, 0:30, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0YurHI-d3Dk&t=363s.
2. “Senator Marco Rubio Presidential Announcement Speech (C-Span),” C-Span, April 14, 2015, YouTube video, 18:27, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=51jmJn8XwPQ&t=306s.
3. “Jeb Bush Presidential Campaign Announcement Full Speech (C-Span),” C-Span, June, 15, 2015, YouTube video, 28:51, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7w-bnAvrsds&t=321s.
4. “Watch Donald Trump Announce His Candidacy for US President,” PBS News Hour, June 16, 2015, YouTube video, 46:33, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SpMJx0-HyOM&t=141s.
5. Ibid.
6. Jonathan Mahler, “Donald Trump's Message Resonates with White Supremacists,” New York Times, February 29, 2016, https://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/01/us/politics/donald-trump-supremacists.html.
7. Ibid.
8. Peter Holley and Sarah Larimer, “How America's Dying White Supremacist Movement Is Seizing on Donald Trump's Appeal,” Washington Post, February 29, 2016, https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2015/12/21/how-donald-trump-is-breathing-life-into-americas-dying-white-supremacist-movement/?utm_term=.0cce7e43ae0b.
9. Chris Cillizza, “Donald Trump's Troll Game of Jeb Bush: A+,” Washington Post, September 8, 2015, https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2015/09/08/donald-trumps-troll-game-of-jeb-bush-a/?utm_term=.bd35ee86dc91.
10. “Bush to Trump: You Can't Insult Your Way to the Presidency,” CNN, December 15, 2015, YouTube video, 0:34, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HKQgrOV27X0.
11. Olivia Nuzzi, “Trump Still Hasn't Retracted His False Claim That He Saw Muslims Cheering on 9/11,” New York Intelligencer, September 11, 2017, http://nymag.com/intelligencer/2017/09/trump-hasnt-retracted-claim-about-muslims-cheering-9-11.html.
12. Alexander Griffing, “Remember When Donald Trump Appeared on Alex Jones’ ‘InfoWars,’” Haaretz, August 6, 2018, https://www.haaretz.com/us-news/remember-when-donald-trump-appeared-on-alex-jones-infowars-1.5443723.
13. Catherine Rampell, “Millennials Have a Higher Opinion of Socialism than of Capitalism,” Washington Post, February 5, 2016, https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/rampage/wp/2016/02/05/millennials-have-a-higher-opinion-of-socialism-than-of-capitalism/?utm_term=.c3fd776ecceb.
14. Kevin Drum, “Donald Trump's Love Affair with White Supremacists,” Mother Jones, July 5, 2016, https://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2016/07/donald-trumps-love-affair-white-supremacists/.
15. Ibid.
16. Melissa Chan, “Donald Trump Refuses to Condemn KKK, Disavow David Duke Endorsement,” Time, February 28, 2016, http://time.com/4240268/donald-trump-kkk-david-duke/.
17. Rebecca Kaplan, “Donald Trump's Endorsers Still with Him after Proposed Muslim Entry Ban,” CBS News, December 9, 2015, https://www.cbsnews.com/news/donald-trump-endorsers-still-with-him-after-proposed-muslim-ban/.
18. Jason Le Miere, “Trump Responds to Hillary Clinton ‘Lock Her Up’ Chants: ‘Some Things Just Take a Little Bit Longer,’” Newsweek, August 3, 2018, https://www.newsweek.com/trump-lock-her-hillary-clinton-1056282.
19. Ed Pilkington and Adam Gabbatt, “How Donald Trump Swept to an Unreal, Surreal Presidential Election Win,” Guardian, November 9, 2016, https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/nov/09/how-trump-won-us-election.
20. “USA Presidential Election: 2016 Odds,” OddsShark, November 10, 2016, https://www.oddsshark.com/entertainment/us-presidential-odds-2016-futures.
21. Mark Potok, “Year in Hate and Extremism,” SPLC Intelligence Report, February 15, 2017, https://www.splcenter.org/fighting-hate/intelligence-report/2017/year-hate-and-extremism.
22. Ibid.
CHAPTER SIXTEEN: ANTI-ALL
1. Sheryl Gay Stolberg and Brian M. Rosenthal, “Man Charged after White Nationalist Rally in Charlottesville Ends in Deadly Violence,” New York Times, August 12, 2017, https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/12/us/charlottesville-protest-white-nationalist.html.
2. Ibid.
3. Valerie Richardson, “Antifa Isn't a ‘Hate Group,’ Southern Poverty Law Center Claims,” Washington Times, December 2, 2017, https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2017/dec/2/antifa-isnt-hate-group-southern-poverty-law-center/.
4. Stolberg and Rosenthal, “Man Charged after White Nationalist Rally.”
5. Dahlia Lithwick, “Yes, What about the ‘Alt-Left’?” Slate, August 16, 2017, https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2017/08/what-the-alt-left-was-actually-doing-in-charlottesville.html.
6. David Neiwert, “Far-Right Conspiracists Stir up Hysteria about Nonexistent ‘Civil War’ Plot by ‘Antifa,’” Southern Poverty Law Center Hatewatch, November 13, 2017, https://www.splcenter.org/hatewatch/2017/11/13/far-right-co
nspiracists-stir-hysteria-about-nonexistent-civil-war-plot-antifa.
7. Ibid.
8. Ibid.
9. Ibid.
10. Ibid.
11. Ibid.
CHAPTER SEVENTEEN: THE STATE OF THE UNION
1. Henry David Thoreau, “A Plea for Captain John Brown” (speech; Concord, MA, October 30, 1859), http://avalon.law.yale.edu/19th_century/thoreau_001.asp.
2. Robin Wright, “Is America Headed for a New Kind of Civil War?,” New Yorker, August 14, 2017, https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/is-america-headed-for-a-new-kind-of-civil-war.
3. Ibid.
4. Jason Wilson, “Are Rightwing Pundits Right That America Is on the Brink of a Civil War?” Guardian, June 22, 2017, https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/jun/22/american-politics-civil-war-alt-right-left-wing.
5. William Cummings, “Iowa Rep. Steve King Says America Is Heading toward Another Civil War,” USA Today, June 25, 2018, https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/onpolitics/2018/06/25/steve-king-america-civil-war/733226002/.
6. Gab (@getongab), Twitter post, June 24, 2018 (since deleted).
7. Jennie Neufeld, “#SecondCivilWar: How a Wild Conspiracy Theory Became a July 4th Twitter Meme,” Vox, July 5, 2018, https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2018/7/5/17536556/second-civil-war-conspiracy-theory-july-4-twitter-meme.
8. Robert Evans, “6 Reasons Why a New Civil War Is Possible and Terrifying,” Cracked, November 1, 2016, http://www.cracked.com/personal-experiences-2403-6-reasons-why-new-civil-war-possible-terrifying.html.
9. Nassim Nicholas Taled, The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable (New York: Penguin, 2008).
10. Evans, “6 Reasons Why a New Civil War is Possible and Terrifying.”
11. William Jordan, “Does “Right Direction/Wrong Track” Matter?” YouGov, August 13, 2016, https://today.yougov.com/topics/politics/articles-reports/2016/08/12/americans-are-unhappy-other-side.
12. Frank Newport, “Church Leaders and Declining Religious Service Attendance,” Gallup, Washington, DC, September 7, 2018, https://news.gallup.com/opinion/polling-matters/242015/church-leaders-declining-religious-service-attendance.aspx.
13. Kim Parker and Renee Stepler, “As US Marriage Rate Hovers at 50%, Education Gap in Marital Status Widens,” Pew Research Center, Washington, DC, September 14, 2017, http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2017/09/14/as-u-s-marriage-rate-hovers-at-50-education-gap-in-marital-status-widens/.
14. Katie Shepherd, “Multnomah County Republican Party Approves Oath Keepers and Three Percenters as Private Security,” Willamette Week, June 30, 2017, https://www.wweek.com/news/2017/06/30/multnomah-county-republican-party-approves-oath-keepers-and-three-percenters-as-private-security/.
15. Chris Riotta, “Maxine Waters Urges Supporters Not to Counter-Protest Militia Group Targeting Her,” Independent, July 19, 2018, https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/maxine-waters-oath-keepers-protest-demonstration-los-angeles-california-militia-a8454846.html.
16. Nick Miroff and Missy Ryan, “Army Assessment of Migrant Caravan Undermines Trump's Rhetoric,” Washington Post, November 2, 2018, https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/army-assessment-of-migrant-caravans-undermines-trumps-rhetoric/2018/11/02/78b9d82a-dec0-11e8-b3f0-62607289efee_story.html?utm_term=.5cc29e5fb3b7.
17. Bethania Palma, “Tucker Carlson's Claim about Protestors Damaging His Door Challenged,” Snopes, November 16, 2018, https://www.snopes.com/news/2018/11/16/tucker-carlsons-claim-about-protesters-damaging-his-door-challenged/.
18. Frank Newport, “US Confidence in Police Recovers from Last Year's Low,” Gallup, Washington, DC, June 14, 2016, https://news.gallup.com/poll/192701/confidence-police-recovers-last-year-low.aspx?g_source=link_NEWSV9&g_medium=related_tile1&g_campaign=item_1597&g_content=US%2520Confidence%2520in%2520Police%2520Recovers%2520From%2520Last%2520Year%27s%2520Low.
CHAPTER EIGHTEEN: KNOW THY ENEMY
1. Mark Potok, “The Year in Hate and Extremism,” SPLC Intelligence Report, March 4, 2013, https://www.splcenter.org/fighting-hate/intelligence-report/2013/year-hate-and-extremism.
2. Daryl Johnson, “Congressional Report Highlights Gaps in US Domestic Terrorism Policy,” Southern Poverty Law Center Hatewatch, January 2, 2018.
3. Spencer S. Hsu, “Napolitano Says Suicide Plane Crash Wasn't Related to Domestic Terrorism,” Washington Post, March 10, 2010, http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/03/09/AR2010030903475.html.
4. Jessica Rivinius, “Sovereign Citizens Perceived as Top Threat,” START, July 30, 2014, https://www.start.umd.edu/news/sovereign-citizen-movement-perceived-top-terrorist-threat.
5. Johnson, “Congressional Report Highlights Gaps.”
6. Jerome P. Bjelopera, “Shifting Homegrown Domestic Terrorism from Hate Crime and Homegrown Domestic Terrorism,” CSR Insights, August 14, 2017, https://fas.org/sgp/crs/terror/IN10299.pdf.
7. “Interview with Greg Palast: I Went To School With Stephen Paddock Grades 2–12,” Jeff Rense Radio, October 16, 2017.
8. “A Casino Regular, Quiet but Prickly, Unleashes a Rampage,” Seattle Times, October 6, 2017, https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/a-casino-regular-quiet-but-prickly-unleashes-a-rampage/.
9. Adam Le Fevre, in email to Daryl Johnson, November 13, 2017.
10. Chris Pleasance, “‘I Was Born Bad’: Las Vegas Prostitute Who Romped with Mass Killer Stephen Paddock Says He Enjoyed Violent Rape Fantasies and She Reveals He Boasted He Had Always Been Evil,” Daily Mail, October 8, 2017, http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4959970/Vegas-prostitute-says-Stephen-Paddock-enjoyed-violent-sex.html.
11. Enjoli Francis, “Las Vegas Gunman Made ‘Anti-Government’ Rants, Sought to Have AR-15s Converted in Fire Fully Automatic: Witness,” ABC News, May 18, 2018, https://abcnews.go.com/US/WorldNews/las-vegas-gunman-made-anti-government-rants-sought/story?id=55244942.
12. Ryan Gaydos, “Las Vegas Gunman Stephen Paddock Ranted about FEMA Camps, Waco before Concert Massacre, Witnesses Say,” Fox News, May 17, 2018, https://www.foxnews.com/us/las-vegas-gunman-stephen-paddock-ranted-about-fema-camps-waco-before-concert-massacre-witnesses-say.
13. Eric Killelea, “Alex Jones’ Mis-Infowars: 7 Batsh*t Conspiracy Theories,” Rolling Stone, February 21, 2017, https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-lists/alex-jones-mis-infowars-7-bat-sht-conspiracy-theories-195468/the-government-is-controlling-the-weather-118190/.
14. “LVMPD Preliminary Investigative Report 1 October Mass Casualty Shooting,” Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department, January 18, 2018, https://www.lvmpd.com/en-us/Documents/1_October_FIT_Report_01-18-2018_Footnoted.pdf.
15. Scott Neuman, “Why Did He Do It? Authorities Still Baffled by Vegas Shooter,” NPR, October 5, 2017, https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/10/05/555864489/why-did-he-do-it-authorities-still-baffled-by-vegas-shooter.
16. Voluntary Witness Statement, Event-171001-3619, Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department, Clark County Detention Center, November 7, 2017, pp. 54–80.
17. Kevin Felts, “Stephen Paddock, The Perfect Gray Man,” All Outdoor, October 3, 2017, https://www.alloutdoor.com/2017/10/03/stephen-paddock-perfect-gray-man/.
18. Daryl Johnson, “Lunatic Fringe: Survivalist Forum Praises Las Vegas Gunman,” Southern Poverty Law Center Hatewatch, October 9, 2017, https://www.splcenter.org/hatewatch/2017/10/09/lunatic-fringe-survivalist-forum-praises-las-vegas-gunman.
19. Voluntary Witness Statement, Event-171001-3619.
CHAPTER NINETEEN: LOVE THY NEIGHBOR
1. Mark Wilding, “Circle or Sphere? Inside the UK's First ‘Flat Earth’ Conference,” Esquire, September 11, 2018, https://www.esquire.com/uk/culture/a22725244/inside-the-uks-first-flat-earth-conference/.
2. Avi Wolfman-Arent, “The Ongoing Battle between Science Teachers and Fake News,” NPR, July 28, 2017, https://www.npr.org/sections/ed/2017/07/28/537907951/the-ongoing-battle-between-science-teachers-and-fake-news.
3. Lulu Morris, “NASA Responded to Rapper B.o.B'
s Flat Earth Plans,” National Geographic, October 4, 2017, https://www.nationalgeographic.com.au/space/nasa-responded-to-rapper-bobs-flat-earth-plans.aspx.
4. “America's Flat-Earth Movement Appears to Be Growing,” Economist, November 28, 2017, https://www.economist.com/graphic-detail/2017/11/28/americas-flat-earth-movement-appears-to-be-growing.
5. David Adam, “The Earth Is Flat? What Planet Is He On?” Guardian, February 23, 2010, https://www.theguardian.com/global/2010/feb/23/flat-earth-society.
6. Wilding, “Circle or Sphere?”
7. Ibid.
8. Mark Shanahan, “This Is What Kyrie Irving Said about the Earth Being Flat,” Boston Globe, August 23, 2017, https://www.bostonglobe.com/lifestyle/names/2017/08/23/this-what-kyrie-irving-said-about-earth-being-flat/v7sNKtYS3SS1QX7s4S4ZaM/story.html.
9. Colin Dwyer, “‘I Don't Believe in Science,’ Says Flat-Earther Set to Launch Himself in Own Rocket,” NPR, November 22, 2017, https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/11/22/565926690/i-dont-believe-in-science-says-flat-earther-set-to-launch-himself-in-own-rocket.
10. Shanahan, “This Is What Kyrie Irving Said.”
11. “Phillip Is Absolutely Baffled by the Men Who Believe the Earth Is Flat | This Morning,” This Morning, May 2, 2018, YouTube video, 0:24, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=erA3WQE9Zes.
12. Joan E. Solsman, “YouTube Bans Infowars’ Alex Jones Channel,” C-Net, August 6, 2018, https://www.cnet.com/news/youtube-bans-infowars-alex-jones-channel/.
13. Joby Warrick, “In Fight against ISIS's Propaganda Machine, Raids and Online Trench Warfare,” Washington Post, August 19, 2018, https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/in-fight-against-isiss-propaganda-machine-raids-and-online-trench-warfare/2018/08/19/379d4da4-9f46-11e8-8e87-c869fe70a721_story.html?utm_term=.cfba4e517683.
14. Vernon Silver and Sarah Frier, “Terrorists Are Still Recruiting on Facebook, Despite Zuckerberg's Reassurances,” Bloomberg, May 10, 2018, https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-05-10/terrorists-creep-onto-facebook-as-fast-as-it-can-shut-them-down.
15. “Moonshot CVE, a Google-Backed Startup Is Using Internet Ads to Counter Online Extremism,” Tech Startups, March 29, 2018, https://techstartups.com/2018/03/29/moonshot-cve-a-google-backed-startup-is-using-internet-ads-to-counter-online-extremism/.
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