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Why Grownups Have Caught Halloween Fever (And Why it’s Unlikely to End Anytime Soon)

By Daniel Wise

…ey love Halloween so much. Many discussed a certain magical feeling in the air when the cool weather rolls in and jack-o-lanterns pop up on porches. One man told me, “It goes back to being a kid, and recognizing the ‘eeriness’ as leaves fall, trees look scarier, it get[s] darker earlier, and there is this ‘atmosphere’ that just has you feeling like you’re not alone.” Another added, “I like Halloween because it has this really cool link between the…

Vainglory Days: A Foremost Expert on Religious Violence Offers Clues to How QAnon Might End

By Mark Juergensmeyer

…their religious affiliation to evangelical Protestantism, the two could be combined. It could be fairly easy to maintain at least some elements of the QAnon worldview and merge them with religious apocalypticism, thereby de-politicizing the ideology. It might not be difficult to persuade former QAnon advocates that the alternative world of evil that they imagine is a spiritual rather than a political one. They might return to the notion that the s…

The Elite Movement Laying the Foundation for a MAGA That Will Outlast Trump and Remake America: Inside NatCon Part I

By Ben Lorber

…analysts, journalists, academics, and students—mingle by the resort’s open-air pool and palm trees, cigars and drinks in hand, sharing their own distaste for liberal democracy, and their plans to turn that distaste into action. One day into the third annual National Conservatism conference, and after a long afternoon of impassioned speeches about the culture war, R. is fired up—and maybe slightly drunk. “I reject equality,” R. tells me as I strain…

Christian Terrorist in TX Was Paid ‘Investigator’ for Prominent GOP Activists and Donors

By Chrissy Stroop

…irre was charged with aggravated assault for running an air conditioner repairman off the road and holding him at gunpoint, actions he took as part of a broader conspiratorial effort to “expose” imaginary “voter fraud” in Harris County, Texas. Having spied on the man for days prior to making his move, Aguirre, a private investigator who was forced to resign from the force in 2002 for excessively aggressive policing, claimed to believe that his tar…

La Carmina, Author of ‘The Little Book of Satanism,’ Talks ‘Satanic Panic,’ QAnon, Japanese Satanism, and More

By Joseph Laycock

…book that will be unfamiliar to most American readers is the so-called “Affair of the Poisons” in 17th century France. Can you briefly explain what this was and whether you think it was a case of actual Satanism? In the late 17th century, dozens of women working on the fringes of Parisian society as fortune tellers, soothsayers and abortionists were accused of engaging in Satanism. King Louis XIV established a special court to judge them in what b…

A Tale of Two Fascisms: ‘Douchey’ JD Vance vs. ‘Creepy’ Blake Masters

By Annika Brockschmidt

…a jock in high school and has since put on a few pounds. He has a bullish air about him. Blake Masters presents in a strikingly different way: Lanky and angular, with sharp features that fans liken to Caesar, a distinctly creepy vibe, and an apparently very specific gun fetish. And while it isn’t hard to imagine Vance going hunting with the boys, Masters used a campaign ad (!) to ensure that voters know that hunting is not why he owns guns. Stand…

Still Left Behind: What the Endurance of the Left Behind Cinematic Universe Can Tell Us About Conservative Moral Psychology

By Christopher Douglas

…ons vary, for Haidt they generally include: Authority Loyalty Purity Care Fairness Conservatives, according to Haidt, mix respect for authority, importance of loyalty, and emphasis on purity with the qualities of care and fairness that liberals prioritize. Conservatives see the importance of all five, he argues, while liberal priorities tend to downplay the importance of ethics that aren’t about harm-reduction and justice. And indeed, it’s certain…

Following Republican Playbook, German Conservatism Breaks the Post-WWII Taboo

By Annika Brockschmidt

…tely fabricated. Contrary to this alleged crime wave in outdoor pools, the number of assaults had actually gone down compared to previous years. Merz called the Green Party the CDU’s “main enemy” after the AfD won their first ever district council seat earlier this summer, blaming the AfD victory on the center-left national government coalition and has since referred to his CDU party as “alternative for Germany with substance” (AfD stands for “alt…

‘The Age of Insurrection: The Radical Right’s Assault on American Democracy’ Explains How We Got Here — And What Comes Next

By Shane Burley

…tifascist crowd. Age of Insurrection captures the heat and paranoia in the air at those events, which have wafted into the suburbs and exurbs and become the country’s general tenor. “The January 6 insurrection was not a capstone to Trump’s reign, but a manifesto of resistance for what came next.” Like his books Alt-America and Red Pill, Blue Pill 5, Neiwert discusses how conspiracy theories and misinformation have enabled these movements to captur…

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Project 2025: How Trump Loyalists and Right-Wing Leaders Are Paving a Fast Road to Fascism

By Peter Montgomery

…by the judicial takeover’s architect, activist and Federalist Society co-chair Leonard Leo, was recently given $1.6 billion to broaden his impact on society at large.[82] the campaign[83] to get state legislatures to call an Article V convention[84] for the purpose of rewriting the U.S. Constitution to restrict the scope and authority of the federal government and “reverse 115 years of progressivism.”[85] The effort is backed by House Speaker Mike…