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"Any group with unpalatable views to the general public don't want to have their views expressed in the open" I agree.

I disagree however with your bigger point. The American far right in particular has gone through great lengths to be hidden. They financial backing is hidden through shell corporations and with protections they fought to carve out with Citizens United. Davos is widely publicized and the press covers it. Have you even heard of the Council for National Policy?

What I'm talking about is the subject of academic research, and is published

* https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/1369118X.2020.1...

* https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/09546553.2019.1...

* https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/1057610X.2020.18...

Right wing views are fine, in the context of following the law. I don't care about other people's politics to the extent they don't try to impose them on me. Seditious conspiracy is another story, and the American right is crossing into that territory recently.

> Seditious conspiracy is another story, and the American right is crossing into that territory recently.

Referring to a tiny minority of people generally as “the American right” is just a bunch of disingenuous bullshit designed to hint that it’s a problem with a whole ideology.

This is no different than equivocating the violence of environmental terrorists or the tiny slice of BLM violence with “the American left”.

Drop me a line when you get time.

>Have you even heard of the Council for National Policy?

That's because the council on national policy has minimal influence on American foreign policy. The American nationalist element has minimal power outside of literally Donald Trump and a handfuls of people that have aligned themselves with him after witnessing his success in domestic american politics.

The power of the the Neoconservative/Neoliberal political hegemony in Washington dwarf the influence of any nationalist element because nationalist politics are not match of the interests of international finance and commerce. Simply put many more wealthy individuals benefit from a liberal world order vs the wealthy that benefit from a localized economy. No Empire that I know of has fought to minimize it's influence.

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