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Podcast: The Bunker – News without the nonsense
Episode: Bunker USA: Make America hate again - How extremists turned patriotism into violence
Description: The notion of American patriotism has become increasingly controversial — and linked to violence. With no clear-cut definition of patriotism, the notion has been co-opted by far-right extremist groups such as the Proud Boys and Oathkeepers. Sam Jackson is the author of Oath Keepers: Patriotism and the Edge of Violence in a Right-Wing Anti Government Group, he joins Chris Jones in The Bunker to discuss how the concept has been warped.Book link: http://cup.columbia.edu/book/oath-keepers/9780231193450
“Patriotism is used as a political weapon”.
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