ABSTRACT
This chapter presents a short discussion of the key terms associated with the topic of the book, most notably far right and radical right, and relates them both to each other and to their political context, i.e. (liberal) democracy. The extreme right comes in many shapes, from aristocrats to theocrats, but the most important subgroup is fascism. It has become customary to use the terms fascism and Nazism only for the movements of the early 20th century and to add the prefix neo to similar movements in the postwar era. Populism ideology that considers society to be ultimately separated into two homogeneous and antagonistic groups, the pure people and the corrupt elite, and which argues that politics should be an expression of the volonté generale of the people. Within the US context, groups like the National Socialist Movement (NSM) and the so-called "alt-right" represent the extreme right, while Breitbart News and paleoconservatives like Patrick Buchanan represent the radical right.
