AntiFash Gordon

Two books I can recommend right off the bat. Read Matthew Lyons' "Insurgents Supremacists" for a good analysis of the far-right: https://secure.pmpress.org/index.php?l=product_detail&p=924 …

Lyons notes that each far-right has two things in common-- (1) they want to replace the current government, and (2) they believe that hierarchies are capital-N Natural and possibly even desirable. Note that it doesn't say anything about being a white nationalist.

This is why groups like the Proud Boys, which aren't explicitly white nationalist, will still organize with the 211 Bootboys or the American Guard, which the ADL calls "hardcore white supremacists." They're both reactionary nationalists who love hierarchies.

But even though their hierarchies aren't less damaging than racism-- the Proud Boys are Islamophobic and intensely transphobic-- they also don't mind organizing alongside white nationalists. And so, eventually, white nationalism will begin to seep into their ideology, too.

Does that make sense?

Essentially, the issue with nationalism is that it's not really better than racism. If we're not going to discriminate based on the color of someone's skin, why are we going to discriminate based on where they're born?