In the United States, today’s far right grew out of older traditions of nationalism, racial backlash, militarism, and anti-government paranoia, but it was transformed into a mass political force when Donald Trump pulled the GOP deeper into the nativist, personality-driven MAGA movement. Since then, far-right politics have fed on lies about elections, conspiracy theories, hatred toward migrants and minorities, and a constant attack on democratic institutions, with January 6 showing how this rhetoric can spill into open violence. Its influence has helped normalize cruelty, deepen polarization, and turn fear and resentment into a governing strategy. For people in America, the consequences include greater mistrust, more intimidation, harsher exclusionary policies, and massive long-term public costs shaped by war, security politics, and permanent political instability. Beyond the US, this far-right model has strengthened nationalist and authoritarian movements abroad, weakened faith in American democracy, and made international cooperation on conflict, migration, and global crises even harder.