Rising Fascism in America

DiMaggio, Anthony R.

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“…Another prominent catalyst for civil strife and/or radical changes in power is the lack-or erosion-of civil and economic liberties, whether acquired legally or otherwise. Many political commentators note the increased likelihood of violent confrontation when democratic and civil liberties decline (Bauer et al, 2021;DiMaggio, 2022). Somewhat counterintuitively, but well-documented empirically, Walter (2022) argues that civil wars in the modern era are most common among quasi-democratic and quasi-autocratic states rather than fully autocratic (or fully democratic) states.…”

Section: Environments Prone To Violent Political Conflictmentioning

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Another Civil War in America? Comparing the Social Psychology of the United States of the 1850s to Today

Van Wart,

Hall,

Barber

et al. 2024

Administration & Society

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Scholars warn that another American civil war is increasingly plausible, if still unlikely; professional political commentators express greater concerns. This study examines the likelihood of another U.S. civil war by comparing perspectives of the 1850s with those of today by using a negative social capital framework as the analytic lens. The analysis finds striking similarities between the two periods. Yet, civil war is a relatively rare phenomenon in developed countries, and the analysis also points to contemporary mitigating examples. At least for the foreseeable future, more likely are trajectories moving toward other types of social unrest short of civil war: ongoing civil strife, additional insurrections, decades-long intraregional political gridlock causing widespread administrative dysfunction, and even a failure to relinquish power. The negative social psychology has already had an extraordinary impact on public administration and is unlikely to decrease in the near term; it may yet increase exponentially as it did in the 1860s.

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Section: Environments Prone To Violent Political Conflictmentioning

confidence: 99%

Another Civil War in America? Comparing the Social Psychology of the United States of the 1850s to Today

Van Wart,

Hall,

Barber

et al. 2024

Administration & Society

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“…There is an urgency to the articles in this issue that is both natural and intentional. As DiMaggio (2022) insists, “to ignore the dangers inherent in the rising neofascistic movement on the American right during the Trump years (and beyond) . .…”

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The way forward: Adult educators combating mis/disinformation via formal and informal education

Wright

2023

New Dir Adult Contin Educ

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In this article, I discuss the academic field of adult education as it relates to critical media literacy, critical public pedagogy, social and civic activism, and higher education in this era many have labeled "post-truth." I ask readers to reconsider the traditional university tenure process and the academic publishing industry as outdated systems that indirectly support disinformation and misinformation by ignoring the impact of media on adult learning and participatory democracy. After discussing alternative methods for disseminating research and expertise, I close with thoughts on Paulo Freire's view of education as humanization in this time of technological domination.

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“…Throughout the fall of 2020, rightwing media—including Fox News and talk radio personalities—were sympathetic to Trump’s ‘Big Lie’ propaganda on the election. The late Rush Limbaugh trafficked in his own conspiracies, claiming that the Democratic Party was attempting to infect Trump with Covid-19 to ensure his election defeat; that ‘radical leftists’ and ‘the Democratic Party’ were ‘ballot harvesting’ in swing states to artificially pump up Democratic votes; that Venezuela was secretly conspiring with the Dominion and Smartmatic electronic vote-counting companies to distort the election results; that the Covid-19 lockdown of 2020 was intended ‘to take down the U.S. economy’ and impose ‘globalism and world government’ on the United States; that US official Covid-19 death counts were exaggerated by ‘fake causes’ being entered into death certificates and through the ‘staged overrunning of hospitals’; and that Covid-19 cases were ‘being reported in states that Trump needs to win’—implying that Democrats were coordinating a campaign to undermine Trump’s reelection (DiMaggio, 2021). These claims were all without foundation, but they reinforced Trump’s baseless and conspiratorial election propaganda.…”

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Conspiracy Theories and the Manufacture of Dissent: QAnon, the ‘Big Lie’, Covid-19, and the Rise of Rightwing Propaganda

DiMaggio

2022

Critical Sociology

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This paper examines the impact of partisanship, rightwing media, and social media on attitudes about contemporary conspiracy theories. Mainstream scholarly views that ‘both sides’ of the political aisle indulge routinely in such theories are challenged. I adopt a Gramscian hegemonic framework that examines rising rightwing conspiracy theories as a manifestation of mass false consciousness in service of a political-economic system that serves upper-class interests. Issues examined include the QAnon movement, ‘big lie’ voter fraud conspiracism, and Covid-19 conspiracy theories, and the way they related to partisanship, rightwing media, and social media. I provide evidence that Republican partisanship, rightwing media consumption, and social media consumption are all significant statistical predictors of acceptance of modern conspiracy theories.

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Rising Fascism in America

Cited by 10 publications

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Another Civil War in America? Comparing the Social Psychology of the United States of the 1850s to Today

Another Civil War in America? Comparing the Social Psychology of the United States of the 1850s to Today

The way forward: Adult educators combating mis/disinformation via formal and informal education

Conspiracy Theories and the Manufacture of Dissent: QAnon, the ‘Big Lie’, Covid-19, and the Rise of Rightwing Propaganda

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