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Mit dem Erscheinen Donald Trumps in der Politlandschaft tauchte auf der vor allem in den USA populären Onlineplattform Reddit ein Forum (Subreddit) mit dem Namen The_Donald auf. Dessen Nutzerinnen und Nutzer befürworten Donald Trumps Politik und vertreten rechtspopulistische bis rechtsradikale Ansichten. Der Beitrag beschäftigt sich mit der Frage, welchen Stellenwert die Plattform Reddit in technisch-funktionaler wie auch in sozialer Hinsicht für die Community The_Donald vor dem Hintergrund der aktuellen gesellschaftspolitischen Situation einnimmt. Auf Basis von theoretischen Grundlagen zum Stellenwert neuer Kommunikationstechnologien in Bezug auf politische Meinungsbildung und Entstehung von Kollektivität im digitalen Raum sowie von Studien zu rechtsradikalen Bewegungen und Netzwerken im digitalen Raum wurde versucht, die Frage im Zuge einer offenen, explorativ angelegten netnographischen Untersuchung zu beantworten. Die Ergebnisse zeigen einerseits, dass die Diskurse im Subreddit The_Donald vier sich gegenseitig bedingende Ebenen bedienen: die individuelle Ebene der einzelnen Nutzerinnen und Nutzer, die Ebene des Subreddits The_Donald, die Ebene der Onlineplattform Reddit als Gesamtes und die gesellschaftspolitische Realität. Weiter wurde deutlich, dass die Beiträge auf The_Donald hohe Emotionalitätaufweisen und Sachverhalte oft vereinfacht erklärt werden. Die Nutzerinnen und Nutzergrenzen Vertreterinnen und Vertreter anderer Meinungen aus, was durch die gegebene Anonymität auf Reddit zusätzlich erleichtert wird. Der Subreddit rief hohe Resonanz hervor und erreichte über 770.000 registrierte Userinnen und User. Angenommen wird, dass die Beiträge der Nutzerinnen und Nutzer einerseits aufgrund des emotionalen und simplifizierenden Kommunikationsstils diese hohe Resonanz erzielen. Andererseits gewährleistet Reddit durch seine spezifische Funktionsweise und durch den Beliebtheitsgrad in den USA rasche Verbreitung. ; When Donald Trump decided to run for the US-presidency in 2015, a forum (or so-called Subreddit) appeared on the popular Social News Aggregator Reddit. This Subreddit with the appealing name The_Donald was dedicated to supporting the current president of the United States. The Users of The_Donald support right-populist and far-right ideas. This study investigates the significance of the online platform Reddit for the Users of The_Donald, from a technical perspective, and in particular from a social perspective. The empiric investigation was based on studies about the importance of new communication technologies and the role of social media for social movements and studies about anti-democratic, far-right networks, and movements. The qualitative analysis examined the titles of posts over four years as well as the comment history of postings with high resonance. As a result, the study identifies four levels of discourse: the individual level of the single user, the level of the subreddit The_Donald, the level of Reddit as a platform and environment, and the level of sociopolitical context. The Users of The_Donald call their subreddit a home. At the same time, they exclude and discriminate users with opinions opposing their own. This exclusion intensifies with the given anonymity on Reddit. Over 770.000 users have subscribed to The_Donald. One factor of the high popularity of The_Donald seems to be the highly emotional and simplifying way of communication. Another factor is Reddits functionality and the importance of this platform in the United States. ; Refereed/Peer-reviewed ; (VLID)5205552

Deep historical trends suggest the United States could be moving toward a distinctly novel form of fascism, embracing elements of the historical phenomenon as it appeared in such countries as Italy, Germany, Japan, and Spain while departing in significant ways. A twenty-first century fascism would hardly be revolutionary or totalitarian, as it would involve no dramatic break with the past, following a logic of continuity and building on firmaments of entrenched power going back to World War II. This new type of fascist regime would be driven by a tightening confluence of sectoral interests in American society: corporate, state, military, and cultural – interests favoring oligarchy, authoritarianism, the warfare system, and surveillance order within an expanding globalized matrix of power. The dominant historical forces emphasized by such theorists as C. Wright Mills (The Power Elite) and Sheldon Wolin (Democracy, Incorporated), an important foundation of this book, have grown stronger and more pervasive across the decades. An integrated power structure has been fueled by new advances in technology, a money-saturated political system, and neoliberal globalism bolstered by the spread of right wing populism that, among other things, has catapulted Donald Trump into the U.S. presidency.? A Peculiarly American Fascism?A very timely scholarly enterprise, this book will be of interest to students of contemporary radical politics, fascism more broadly, US political history, ideologies and party politics.Afterword: Mussolini in AmericaAmerican ExceptionalismElite Power, Mass AlienationEmpire Versus DemocracyFascism in PowerFriendly Fascism?Ideological RegenerationIn this book, Carl Boggs explores new political and ideological terrain in systematically considering the prospects for a gradual development of fascism in contemporary American society and, by extension, elsewhere across the advanced industrial world. He persuasively argues that modern fascistic trends, arguably most visible in the U.S., demonstrate a closer affinity with Mussolini's Italy (corporate state) than with the more extreme Nazi German model of tyranny and genocide.?? Militarism and TerrorismMills Power ElitePostwar NeofascismReactionary PopulismSuperpower: Politics, Ideology, CultureThe Logic of Capitalist RationalizationThe Rise of State CapitalismThe Globalization of Corporate PowerThe End of Liberalism The Rise of Interwar FascismThe Rightwing AscendancyThe Rambo CultureWolins "Inverted Totalitarianism"Xenophobic Politics.