Comes in many forms. All should be contested. Some will say what it constitutes is debatable but as a certain SCOTUS justice once said when trying to define obscenity: I know it when I see it.
The left-wing and Islamic forms are well known and have gotten the most attention. The far right forms are less familiar though and until recently much more fringe and inconsequential. Let's make some attempt to review them.
Neo-Nazis -
People who equate American policy with Jewish policy and thus end up siding with hostile foreign actors like Iran, Russia, and even al Qaeda in the most virulent strains.
Russophiles -
Putin lovers who blame the US for various things. Syria, the refugee crisis, NATO moving east, Ukraine, etc.
Secessionists -
Little need be said here. Wanting to break up the US is about as anti-American as it gets short of blowing the place up.
Rabid neo-con bashers -
These are the types that tend to see any foreign intervention as a neo-con operation. If they don't side with foreign powers outright they certainly attempt to hamstring necessary applications of American power much in the way leftists will try to hamstring the police domestically.
Much of the above stems from foreign policy ignorance - which is common among the general public. But this is weaponized ignorance.
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I don't favor a right-wing dictatorship. What I do believe is that it is preferable to a permanent Democratic one party regime. That regime would include severe gun control and involve an immigration problem likely to intensify pressure on American culture such as reverence for the Founding Fathers. So, I'd argue, a right-wing dictatorship would be less anti-American than the alternative there. But there are a number of different options. What I think isn't even important here. History is moving in my direction basically.
I simply disagree that disliking blacks can be deemed anti-American. I don't think even liberals would claim that. They'd even say racism is ingrained in America's DNA. At most they might say it is un-American. The dominance of that position is a post-Civil Rights social revolutionary position though. For a far longer time my side called the views they hold un-American.
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