Hot Topic: How the Right Radicalized — and What It Means for the 2024 Elections

Speaker: Dr. Nicole Hemmer, Vanderbilt University

For many Americans, the attack on the U.S. Capitol in 2020 came as a shock, evidence of a right-wing movement that had rapidly radicalized over the course of the Trump presidency. But the rise of a radicalized right, and its growing power within the Republican Party, is a story that reaches back much further. This talk will focus on the roots of that radicalization, and what it means for voting rights, ballot battles, and the possibility of violence heading into the 2024 elections.

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Nicole Hemmer is an associate professor of history and director of the Rogers Center for the American Presidency at Vanderbilt University. An expert on the U.S. right, she is author of Messengers of the Right: Conservative Media and the Transformation of American Politics and Partisans: The Conservative Revolutionaries Who Remade American Politics in the 1990s. As a columnist and podcaster, she frequently provides analysis on U.S. politics for a number of national and international outlets, including the New York Times, CNN, and Washington Post.

Free and open to the public.