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Radicalism has been relatively weak in the US, so strong is the Amer consensus. In the past, most radical movements were leftists or liberal. Today, right-wing radicalism is strong. Its intellectual & pol'al roots are found in leftist movements such as populism & the protofascism of the 1930's as well as pre-WWII isolationism. McCarthy was a link between these movements & the present radical right. The major tenet of contemporary right-wing extremism is an anticommunism which stresses the domestic aspect of the Communist threat. Because of belief in the absolute nature of the struggle against communism & a conspiracy theory of history inherited from leftist & isolationist movements of the past, the radical right has little faith in traditional constitutional & pol'al processes & stresses clandestine & massaction methods for fighting communism. In econ's, the radical right favors a return to 19th-cent laissez-faire liberalism; in soc life, it favors greater conformity to traditional norms. The future of right-wing radicalism depends primarily on the course of internat'l events but also, in part, on the nature & strength of contemporary left-wing radical movements. AA.