Jason Wilson
Jason Wilson is an Australian-born writer living in Portland, Oregon. He's on Twitter at @jason_a_w.
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Some libertarians are reacting with alarm to Donald Trump’s discriminatory executive orders, his authoritarian tendencies and international sabre-rattling
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Scott Morrison’s echoing of Trump may have been an attempt to keep populism at bay but there is a clear danger in this type of rhetoric
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Rightwing commentators on the foreign policy implications of the president’s inaugural address, his likely line on the culture wars and even his mental health
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As the far right movement has emerged from obscurity, it has also become a target, facing what Richard Spencer calls ‘a literal and figurative punch in the face’
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Read what the voices on the right have to say before Donald Trump becomes president of the United States
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Looking for more rightwing perspectives to balance your news diet? Here are pieces analyzing Trump’s military appointments and whether he is an aberration
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Technology cannot bend human values in one direction or another. The internet merely provides tools for humans to realise their values, for good or ill
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Looking for more rightwing perspectives to balance your news diet? Here’s some more pieces analyzing Trump’s foreign policy, sanctuary cities and populism
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It’s easy for progressive readers to remain insulated in a liberal bubble but voices on the right have insights about the incipient Trump era too
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Far right movements have been successful globally by politicising hostility to immigrants and cultivating a resurgent ethnonationalism. The left can – and should – fight back
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In the fragmented world of new media it is all too easy to experience only opinions we agree with. These titles can help liberal readers change that
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Thousands of people are reportedly on waitlist to join website that prominently features pro-Trump content, as founder insists Gab is not ‘Twitter for racists’
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Stephen Bannon, newly appointed chief strategist in the Trump administration, spent four years as executive chairman of Breitbart, a ‘platform for the alt-right’
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Far right groups are gaining a global foothold because they echo mainstream discourse which has shrunk the political horizon to issues of border paranoia, terror, and security
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Extremist surge got national attention during the Oregon militia standoff and has continued to rise with Trump, with his legitimization of white nationalist politics
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Ben Radford, the author of a new book, Bad Clowns, isn’t surprised by the scary clown sightings that have moved from the US to the UK and Australia
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A reading of Pauline Hanson: The Truth reveals the extent to which Hansonist positions have been co-opted by conservatives in politics and media
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‘Fuck Portlandia’ blogpost by In Other Words bookstore, the setting for many sketches, says the show ‘has had a net negative effect on the city as a whole’
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The Blaze’s up-and-coming conservative TV pundit is seen by many as the new Ann Coulter – and, she says, she is #NeverHillary through and through
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Malcolm Roberts’ belief that sustainable development is a disguised attempt to impose global communism has entered US mainstream politics. It could here too
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The real damage done by extremism often comes, not from far-right groups, but from the influence they are able to exert on the mainstream right
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Clinton said ‘outside forces’ did not affect policy decisions as secretary of state; Stephen Bannon’s empty Florida home and domestic violence charges revealed
Australian politics has been remodelled. Hansonists are no longer outliers