The American political right is undergoing thorough – and exceptionally dangerous – crises of identity and direction. An important new book released this month, Furious Minds, written by the political theorist and expert on the far right Laura K Field, unpacks the development of the intellectual basis for the Make America Great Again (Maga) movement and how even more extreme, reactionary trends may be looming large.
The Donald Trump era will inevitably end, but beyond his charismatic unifying persona, there is no clear sense of where the right is going and who, if anyone, can hold its coalition together.
The Maga movement was shaken this week, as the House of Representatives on Tuesday voted nearly unanimously – just one Republican opposed the measure – demanding the public release of Justice Department files on the now-deceased sexual predator Jeffrey Epstein.
Mr Trump originally fought the release before an abrupt, last-minute U-turn when it became clear his position on the matter was deeply unpopular. Whereas he is usually the one pressuring Republican lawmakers to do as he wishes, this time it was the President who was under
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