Agitators online

After distinguishing between droites extrêmes and extrêmes droites, the article analyzes the fascization of public spheres and reviews these trends’ various manifestations online over the past decade. It highlights how different movements like the Tea Party, the “Manif pour tous,” and Pegida use the Web. The main features of “extreme rights” (droites extrêmes) are identified as their tendency towards “othering,” the personalization of social malaise, the “depluralization” of the world, the “denial of reality,” and the “authoritarian address.”