The Nation Weekly: September 23, 2022 Trump’s embrace of QAnon, social media surveillance, and more
Keith Preston
“The crowd recognized the import of the moment, and began raising fingers in the air in what is apparently a QAnon salute,” Chris Lehmann writes of last week’s Trump rally in Youngstown, Ohio.
Trump’s embrace of these rally-goers demonstrates perhaps that the flamboyant cult of QAnon—which posits a worldwide cabal of powerful liberal pedophiles using state power to expand and conceal their predations—is not all that far afield from mainstream thinking in today’s evangelical right.
For evangelicals and conservative Christians, the former president’s cult-like rallies have placed their ritualized militancy at the center of American politics.
Christopher Soto’s Diaries of a Terrorist grapples with the the security ideology that shapes the Americas through poems that explore activism and resistance.
On this week’s episode of Start Making Sense, The Nation’s president and its D.C. Bureau chief join the podcast for discussions on the democratic presidential bid and a Republican riot that preceded the Capitol insurrection by two decades.
