Free Forum - CHIP BERLET, author, RIGHT-WING POPULISM IN AMERICA

NEW SHOW!According to the Southern Poverty Law Center, "The number of hate groups in the United States rose for a second year in a row in 2016 as the radical right was energized by the candidacy of Donald Trump." Of a spike in reported incidents of "hate" violence, SPLC reports, "37% of them directly referenced either President Trump, his campaign slogans, or his infamous remarks about sexual assault." CHIP BERLET has investigated hate groups, theocratic fundamentalism, civil liberties violations, police misconduct, surveillance abuse, other anti-democratic phenomena.