Released to widespread acclaim within the nationalist right, American Extremist has changed the way we think about extremism. Clinical psychologist Josh Neal recasts the notion of extremism to include the mainstream institutions who radicalize violent actors, by psychologically profiling both the left- and right-extremist and showing how power brokers at the CNNs, Twitters, and Harvards of the world share this profile.

This second edition contains a new foreword by Tyler Hamilton and three new essays by Neal that tie into American Extremist, on topics such as the internet as a vector for radicalization, re-visioning America so that the American people can survive, and the political implications of the self-disgust that so riddles progressives.