With government officials removing monuments of white supremacists in New Orleans and the failed attempts by the American alt-right to throw the French presidential election into chaos, it has been a bad week for wannabe-fascists writes USSC research associate Dr Nicole Hemmer for U.S. News and World Report.
Election Watch 20249 May 2017
A bad week for the alt-right
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Dr Nicole Hemmer
Honorary AssociateUnited States Studies Centre