Uploaded October 2025 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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Discussing examples of politicians downplaying extremism in recent American politics. All pictures are from Google.
“The Alt-Right Playbook: The Death of a Euphemism”: youtube.com/watch?v=0dBJIkp7qIg
“Infiltrating the Far Right”: newyorker.com/magazine/2024/08/26/infiltrating-the-far-right
“A Critique of Both-Sidesism”: youtu.be/IemJgzTlfgs
“Interest of Racially or Ethnically Motivated Violent Extremists in Radical-Traditionalist Catholic Ideology Almost Certainly Presents New Mitigation Opportunities”: judiciary.house.gov/sites/evo-subsites/republicans-judiciary.house.gov/files/evo-media-document/fbi-anti-catholic-memo.pdf
“Judiciary Committee Uncovers Multiple FBI Field Offices Coordinated to Prepare Anti-Catholic Memo”: judiciary.house.gov/media/press-releases/judiciary-committee-uncovers-multiple-fbi-field-offices-coordinated-prepare
“Jim Jordan’s new myth: an ‘anti-Catholic’ FBI”: congress.gov/119/meeting/house/117924/documents/HHRG-119-JU13-20250225-SD014-U14.pdf
“No Bias Found in F.B.I. Report on Catholic Extremists”: congress.gov/119/meeting/house/118055/documents/HHRG-119-JU13-20250402-SD001.pdf
“‘I love Hitler’: Leaked messages expose Young Republicans’ racist chat”: politico.com/news/2025/10/14/private-chat-among-young-gop-club-members-00592146?nid=0000015a-dd3e-d536-a37b-dd7fd8af0000&nname=playbook-pm&nrid=0000016d-49ff-dd19-a7ef-fdff2c6f0000
“Virginia Democrats criticize AG candidate Jay Jones for violent texts but aren’t demanding he quit race”: cnn.com/2025/10/06/politics/jay-jones-texts-virginia-democrats
“Trump administration joins Republicans’ campaign to police speech in reaction to Kirk’s killing”: apnews.com/article/charlie-kirk-speech-republicans-firings-government-vance-e65a4939b80e4f4822db188e978d8812
“Racist Young Republican Chat Leaves GOP Stumbling to Respond”: thebulwark.com/p/racist-young-republican-chat-leaves-gop-stumbling-respond