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This chapter describes how, in the two intervening years since the 2015 report was completed, the landscape of the right-wing extremist (RWE) movement in Canada appears to have changed dramatically, in large part thanks to Donald J. Trump’s journey to the White House. His campaign and his surprising electoral victory rode a wave of anti-elitism and xenophobia. He masterfully exploited the economic and cultural anxieties of white working-class and petite bourgeois Americans by deflecting blame for their woes onto the “usual suspects”, among them minorities, liberals, Muslims, professionals and immigrants. His rhetoric touched a chord, and in fact emboldened and energized white supremacist ideologies, identities, movements and practices in the United States and around the world. Indeed, the Trump Effect touched Canada as well. This chapter explores how the American politics of hate unleashed by Trump’s right-wing populist posturing galvanized Canadian white supremacist ideologies, identities, movements and practices. This chapter provides an overview of the manifestations of the Trump Effect in Canada. We also contextualize the antecedents of Trump’s resonance in Canada, highlighting the preconditions for and currents and characteristics of RWE in Canada.
Portions of this chapter are reprinted by permission from Institute for Hate Studies, Gonzaga University: Journal of Hate Studies, The Dangers of Porous Borders: The “Trump Effect” in Canada, Barbara Perry, Tanner Mirrlees, and Ryan Scrivens, 2019.
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Perry, B., Scrivens, R. (2019). Epilogue: The Trump Effect on Right-Wing Extremism in Canada. In: Right-Wing Extremism in Canada . Palgrave Hate Studies. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-25169-7_6
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