They Like the Rough Stuff: The Trump Base and Mainstreaming of Extremism in Right-Wing Media

• In Event: Narratives from the Political Right

Abstract

This paper is part of a larger book project that updates past research on right-wing political media. This paper focuses specifically on the mainstreaming of extremism on the right, especially within the MAGA Media system. It examines the culture of violence and zealotry that has expanded in the second Trump administration to explain how and why this has happened.

Author

• Alison Dagnes, Shippensburg University