“Bring the War Home”: A Timely Investigation of the White Power Movement
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Oath Keepers patrol Emancipation Park during the Charlottesville "Unite the Right" Rally on August 12, 2017.
BY: Ryan Smith
Truthout
Kathleen Belew’s Bring the War Home: The White Power Movement and Paramilitary America is an unquestionably powerful, well-researched and must-read addition to the post-2016 upsurge in analysis and investigation of the foundations of modern fascism. Anyone seeking to understand the origins of the modern far right in the US should include this work at the top of their reading list.
The backbone of Belew’s argument is that the roots of the modern white power movement, as it is understood today, can be found in a myth that emerged in the US right in the aftermath of the Vietnam War. This story claims the US lost the war because of be...