Last year, Patrik Hermansson who is a researcher
the British anti-racist watchdog group Hope Not Hate and graduate-student from
Sweden, went undercover in the world of the extreme right. Posing as a student
writing a thesis about the suppression of right-wing speech, he traveled from
the UK to the US and into the heart of the white supremacist movement known as
the alt-right. What he learned while
undercover is now part of a shocking, comprehensive new report from Hope Not
Hate that sheds light on the alt-right beliefs and structure of this far-right
movement that exists mostly online and that has come to national attention in
part because of its support for Donald Trump.
Patrik joins me today on the show to talk all about his experiences
undercover and what he has learned about the alt-right.
This sure has been another crazy week in
politics what with the latest version of Trumpcare not getting a vote in the
Senate and Trump’s candidate losing in the Alabama GOP Senate Primary
runoff. Joining me today to help us wrap
up the week in politics is Eleanor Clift
the Washington correspondent for The Daily Beast,
where she covers the White House and writes about politics and culture.
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