John Foster "Chip" Berlet is an American investigative journalist, research analyst, photojournalist, scholar, and activist specializing in the study of Right-wing movements in the United States.

Interlude A: What is Democracy?; Introduction: The Roots of Reaction; 1 Theocracy and White Supremacy: Behind the Culture War to Restore Traditional Values; 2 Swastikas in Cyberspace: Ultra-Right White Supremacy and Antisemitism Online; 3 The European New Right and US Politics; 4 Militia Nation; 5 Defending the Four Freedoms: My Dad, Memorial Day, and Democracy; 5 Why Now?; 7 Drifting Right and Going Wrong: An Overview of the U.S. Political Right; 8 What We Face in the Year 2000; 9 Culture, Religion, Apocalypse, and US Middle East Foreign Policy; Interlude B: Condi's Dad and the Lessons of War; 10 Running Against Sodom and Osama: The Christian Right, Values Voters and the Culture Wars in 2006; 11 The Rise of Dominionism: Remaking America as a Christian Nation; 12 Exporting Right-Wing Christianity, Jean Hardisty and Chip Berlet; Interlude C: Taking Tea Partiers Seriously; 13 From the KKK to Dylann Roof: White Nationalism Infuses Our Political Ideology; 14 Romney Appeals to White Tribalism in Ohio; 15 'Trumping' Democracy: Right-Wing Populism, Fascism, and the Case for Action; 16 Republican Ideological Shift in Election 2016; 17 From Fascist Ratlines to Republican Party Politics: How Nazi Collaborators Came to America; 18 The Patriot Movement, Armed Insurgents, and Trumpism; 19 Trump, Sado-Populism, Alt-Right, and Apocalyptic Neofascism; Afterword: Defending Democracy Itself; Postscript