The Retribution: What to expect from the far-right in 2025

Striking at the heart of Dr. King’s dream, white nationalists, militias and paramilitaries, Christian nationalists, tech-bro fascists, anti-immigrant vigilantes, and other bigoted conspiracy-mongers plan to seek “retribution” for perceived slights to “the nation” under a second Trump administration. At the same time, they will push far-right ideas from the margins to the mainstream.    Dr. King’s dream faces the biggest threat since the Civil Rights era. It’s impossible to understate the potential harms on the horizon. Militarized mass deportations, attacks on tribal sovereignty, curtailing women’s reproductive freedom, erasure of BIPOC history, arrests of dissenters, and more loom.

At the same time, far-right movements will attack on two fronts. First, some call for doling out vigilante-style “retribution” on opponents--attacking all who seek Dr. King’s vision of beloved community. Far-rightists will also push the administration and all of society in a more ominous direction. This is the “three-sided struggle.”

This workshop will map likely threats from far-right movements: white nationalists, militias, Christian nationalists, tech-bro fascists, anti-immigrant vigilantes, and other bigoted conspiracy-mongers. We will examine their advances into the mainstream, including the incoming administration and state legislatures. We will also explore concepts of resistance and the three-sided struggle as we prepare to face the fear together.

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