04200 a2200361 4500 BJBSDDR 20260313113539.0 ta 160625s2024 nyu 00| 0 eng d 9780063041370 (paperback) 0063041375 (paperback) eng DLC eng JC 574.2 S745r 2024 Spencer, Kyle, 1970- 42725 Raising them right : the untold story of america's ultraconservative youth movement and its plot for power / Kyle Spencer. First Ecco paperback edition New York, NY : Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, 2024. xxiii, 344 pages ; 21 cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. Introduction PART I. The rise of a white, male Obama-hater Birth of a libertarian messenger The new son From the ground up The kid is gone PART II. "Coming out conservative" "Tired of losing" "I hate black people" Conference crusaders Candace's conversion Boots on the ground Candace builds her following Prom night for the college conservative PART III. Firebombing the Internet The comeback kid The view from Candaceland Sowing seeds Spreading the steal story The insurrectionists Armed for the future In the wake of the Obama presidency, a group of young charismatic conservatives catapulted onto the American political and cultural scenes, eager to thwart nationwide pushes for greater equity and inclusion. They dreamed of a cultural revolution--online and off--that would offer a forceful alternative to the progressive politics that were dominating American college campuses. In Raising Them Right, a gripping, character-driven read and investigative tour de force, Kyle Spencer chronicles the people and organizations working to lure millions of unsuspecting young American voters into the far-right fold--revealing their highly successful efforts to harness social media in alarming ways and capitalize on the democratization of celebrity culture. These power-hungry new faces may look and sound like antiestablishment renegades, but they are actually part of a tightly organized and heavily funded ultraconservative initiative to transform American youth culture and popularize fringe ideas. There is Charlie Kirk, the swashbuckling Trump insider and founder of the right-wing youth activist group Turning Point USA, who dreams of taking back the country's soul from weak-kneed liberals and becoming a national powerbroker in his own right. There is the acid-tongued Candace Owens, a Black ultraconservative talk-show host and Fox News regular who is seeking to bring Black America to the GOP and her own celebritydom into the national forefront. And there is the young, rough-and-tumble libertarian Cliff Maloney, who built the Koch-affiliated organization Young Americans for Liberty into a political force to be reckoned with, while solidifying his own power and pull inside conservative circles. Chock-full of original reporting and unprecedented access, Raising Them Right is a striking prism through which to view the extraordinary shifts that have taken place in the American political sphere over the last decade. It establishes Kyle Spencer as the premier authority on a new generation of young conservative communicators who are merging politics and pop culture, social media and social lives, to bring cruel economic philosophies, skeletal government, and dangerous antidemocratic ideals into the mainstream. Theirs is a crusade that is just beginning"-- Provided by publisher Partido Republicano (EE. UU. : 1854-) Afiliación 47489 Derecha e izquierda (Ciencia política) 7100 Estados Unidos Radicalismo Estados Unidos Historia 7927 Fondos de campaña Estados Unidos 47490 Cristianismo y política Estados Unidos 44 Identidad política Estados Unidos 47491 Extremistas de derecha Estados Unidos 7685 Juventud Condiciones sociales Estados Unidos 11201 lcc BK dpf 123873 123873 0 0 lcc 0 0 CS BJB BJB CS 2025-06-16 0 JC 574.2 S745r 2024 00000190448 2025-06-16 00:00:00 1 2025-06-16 BK