Is Donald Trump a fascist? Are the Proud Boys like the English Defence League – with guns? Join us to discuss the how the far Right is becoming ‘mainstream’ in the US, what we can do about it – and what happens after 3 November.
Free live discussion on Thursday 15 October at 5pm UK time/12pm EDT
Hear from:
Brian Hughes Associate director for the Polarization and Extremism Research and Innovation Lab (PERIL) at American University, Washington DC
Bethan Johnson Doctoral candidate in Department of History, University of Cambridge
Eviane Leidig Head of publishing at the Centre for Analysis of the Radical Right and a postdoc affiliate at the Center for Research on Extremism, University of Oslo
Ashley Mattheis Researches the use of online platforms to circulate far-Right, male supremacist and White supremacist ideologies
Mark Potok For twenty years a leader and top analyst at the anti-racist Southern Poverty Law Center, is now a senior fellow at the Centre for Analysis of the Radical Right
Chair: Mary Fitzgerald Editor-in-chief, openDemocracy