Chip Berlet Quotes

• Around the country, ideas that originated on the hard right or in the fevered imaginations of conspiracy theorists are finding their way into the mainstream. In a number of cases, these ideas have become commonplace in American minds.

  Chip Berlet

  Country, Imagination, Mind

  "Into the Mainstream". Intelligence Report, Summer 2003.

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• People's perceptions of their status are just as important as their actual status.

  Chip Berlet

  Perception, Important

  Source: www.salon.com

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• People will say to me, "Well, nobody really believes this stuff." But as a reporter I go out and talk to people who do believe it. And they can talk about it for hours.

  Chip Berlet

  Believe, People, Hours

  Source: www.salon.com

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• That there are evil people destroying America and it's a conspiracy and time is running out and we should do something about it - that's what millions of people hear Trump saying.

  Chip Berlet

  Running, People, Evil

  Source: www.salon.com

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• Even before the election I was saying that the rhetoric used by Trump was going to cause violence before and after the election. That was easy to predict.

  Chip Berlet

  Violence, Election, Easy

  Source: www.salon.com

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• Part of the coalition is intellectuals who have an idea of racial nationalism, which is very popular in right-wing populist movements in Europe. The alt-right believes in racially separate nation-states.

  Chip Berlet

  Believe, Very Popular, Populist

  Source: www.salon.com

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