Eco-fascism unveiled: Ethnonationalist and authoritarian responses to climate change

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This syncretic approach to propaganda is driven by a longstanding ambition among fascists and neo-fascists to erroneously position themselves as ‘beyond left and right,’ a notion also echoed in contemporary neo-fascist ‘third positionism’. [politicalresearch.org] Syncretism in the data examined here may also reflect Stormfront’s wider context and its reputation for stimulating debate and consensus on white nationalist issues under the guise of democratic political expression. Through a process described as ‘bricolage,’ the users we studied adapt and reframe various concepts and ideas that resonate broadly to champion supremacist and exclusionary white nationalist political ideologies.”

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