![]() ![]() ![]() Many scholars, too, view these loony "ideas" as central to the militia movement, considering them another example of the "paranoid style" of American politics, a phenomenon first described in 1965 by historian Richard Hofstadter in The Paranoid Style in American Politics and Other Essays. The New World Order has a secret weather machine in Brussels that is being used to scorch American farms.įor most Americans, these wild conspiracy theories are what remain vivid about the militia movement that exploded on the American political scene in the early 1990s - reaching some 858 groups by 1996 - only to implode by the turn of the millennium. ![]() The backs of road signs are coded with directions to guide invading United Nations forces. New York: Routledge, 2004, 230 pp., $114.95 (hardback)īlack helicopters are spying on law-abiding Americans. American Extremism: History, Politics and the Militia Movement ![]()
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