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The Rise of Illiberalism explores the philosophical underpinnings of this toxic political ideology and documents how it has infiltrated the mainstream of political discourse in the United States. By the earlytwenty-first century, Main writes, liberal democracy's failure to deal adequately with social problems created a space illiberal movements could exploit to promote their particular brands of identity politics as an alternative. A critical need thus is for what the author calls “positive identity politics,” or a widely shared sense of community that gives a feelingof equal importance to all sectors of society. Achieving this goal will, however, be an enormous challenge. 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White power. Racism. Identity politics. The Alt-Right. When former \u003ci\u003eBreitbart News\u003c\/i\u003e editor Steve Bannon took over Donald Trump's presidential campaign in 2016 and steered him to victory, the term Alt-Right entered the American conversation. Then, violence in Charlottesville, Virginia, in the summer of 2017 fueled the prominence of Alt-Rightism as a political force.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhat is the Alt-Right? Is it an ideology, a trend, or just an unorganized group of people far outside the political mainstream in America? What effect is it having on American politics today, and what are the prospects for the Alt-Right in the futre?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eThe Rise of the Alt-Right\u003c\/i\u003e, Thomas J. Main addresses these and related questions through careful research and analysis, including extensive interviews with Alt-Right thought leaders and a unique analysis of traffic to online political magazines. 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