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(160,061 posts) Sat Sep 6, 2025, 05:43 PM Sep 6

Rightwing conference reveals muddled lines between Trump and far right

Source: The Guardian

Sat 6 Sep 2025 07.00 EDT
Last modified on Sat 6 Sep 2025 07.04 EDT

A rightwing conference recently saw theocratic Christian nationalists, far-right publishers and members of men-only secret societies speaking alongside the Missouri senator Eric Schmitt, the assistant attorney general for civil rights at Donald Trump’s Department of Justice and other senior Republican figures.

The speaker list at the National Conservatism conference in Washington DC raises questions over what distinctions exist between the nationalist hard right in the US and members of the Trump administration and the Republican party.

Heidi Beirich, the chief strategy officer and co-founder of the Global Project Against Hate and Extremism, said: “NatCon is filled with extremists touting white nationalism and conspiracy theories. What is notable is how Trump administration officials and allies are key players in the event, showing that it is near impossible today to distinguish the far right from the administration.”

The conference schedule was peppered with the names of leading figures of the so-called “new right,” an anti-democratic and ultra-nationalist far-right movement whose reactionary views have often undergirded the administration’s actions.

Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/sep/06/national-convservatism-conference-trump

THIS is the current administration's focus. NOT "Price of eggs", "Kitchen table issues", "Working class".

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Rightwing conference reveals muddled lines between Trump and far right (Original Post) BumRushDaShow Sep 6 OP

The conclusion DBoon Sep 6 #1

Read that book lonely bird Sep 6 #4

"reveals?" PSPS Sep 6 #2

Imo lonely bird Sep 6 #3

It actually wasn't even "hidden" BumRushDaShow Sep 7 #5

DBoon

(24,282 posts)

1. The conclusion

Reply to BumRushDaShow (Original post)

Sat Sep 6, 2025, 07:02 PM

Sep 6

“The American public needs to catch up fast on the reality of American politics,” said Katherine Stewart, the author of Money, Lies, and God: Inside the Movement to Destroy American Democracy. “This isn’t about left v right or liberal v conservative. The present administration and its NatCon supporters represent a fanatical movement that does not believe in democracy, individual rights, rational discourse, or any of the things that actually made America great.”

lonely bird

(2,535 posts)

4. Read that book

Reply to DBoon (Reply #1)

Sat Sep 6, 2025, 09:48 PM

Sep 6

Good stuff and accurate, imo.

PSPS

(14,913 posts)

2. "reveals?"

Reply to BumRushDaShow (Original post)

Sat Sep 6, 2025, 09:40 PM

Sep 6

It has been so obvious and out in the open that one can't avoid tripping over it continuously every day.

lonely bird

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3. Imo

Reply to BumRushDaShow (Original post)

Sat Sep 6, 2025, 09:47 PM

Sep 6

Much of the Right has been this way since the early ‘50’s. They simply kept it hidden until Trump made it acceptable to spew their nonsense.

BumRushDaShow

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5. It actually wasn't even "hidden"

Reply to lonely bird (Reply #3)

Sun Sep 7, 2025, 06:33 AM

Sep 7

since Nixon and Raygun stoked it to get votes to get elected to office, including the coddling of the so-called "Moral Majority". However those 2 former Presidents paid them a lot of "lip service", and they eventually threw those loons under the bus by putting their concerns "on the back burner".

But as soon as 45 got in, he not only put their concerns right there "on the front burner", but has embraced them, promoted them, and is now implementing them as "official U.S. policy".

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