I’ve been monitoring white separatist and evangelical communities, and both are flooded with people convinced coronavirus is both a plague from God and an opportunity to seize power.
This isn’t surprising considering both groups share Neo-fascist, white supremacist ideology.
This isn’t surprising considering both groups share Neo-fascist, white supremacist ideology.
I’ve reported on this extensively, but white supremacists and white identity, evangelical communities share a Neo-Confederate ideology that a racist god has anointed them and they are threatened with an evil conspiracy of minorities.
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They share an ideology and crises like the coronavirus pandemic make that abundantly clear. Evangelicals are looking for an End Times battle and waiting on a second coming, separatists are itching for a literal battle and an ascension to power. They’re in concert.
It’s important to note that so much of Trump’s misinformation and rhetoric is speaking to whites supremacists and white identity evangelicals. This talk of invisible enemies, the scapegoating of China and conspiracies, the talk of bio weapons. It fuels the narrative.
