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A newly nominated Republican congressional candidate in Ohio says he’s not a QAnon man. There’s only one downside: The candidate, J.R. Majewski, was repeatedly filmed speaking about Q on internet exhibits, spray-painting QAnon logos onto his garden, and carrying QAnon merchandise.
“This man has extra QAnon merchandise than mainly any QAnon individual I’ve ever talked to,” says Fever Desires co-host Will Sommer, who discovered movies of Majewski carrying an in depth Q-themed wardrobe.
This week on Fever Desires, we dive deep into the far proper’s livestreamed publicity woes, from Majewski’s QAnon feedback, to a nasty battle within the white nationalist “America First” motion. The motion, which counts Congress members Paul Gosar and Marjorie Taylor Greene as followers, is present process turmoil after its treasurer acquired a girlfriend and stopped dwelling within the basement of chief Nick Fuentes. That was an issue for Fuentes, who describes himself as an incel (that’s “involuntarily celibate”) and beseeches his younger, male fanbase to not have intercourse. Now the motion’s former treasurer is looking the motion a cult.
The motion is so grounded in being “racist and ridiculous in public that it ruins individuals’s lives,” says Fever Desires co-host Kelly Weill. “You possibly can’t go and get a standard job after that. So that they flip additional and additional into this motion, which actually does operate nearly like a cult.”
Whereas the America First motion struggles with lady issues, Trump followers on the southern border are dealing with unusual new allegations of their very own. A latest New York Occasions report particulars a QAnon-fueled border vigilante motion that has MAGA sorts bribing migrant youngsters with hamburgers and asking them for details about their households. It’s not the primary group of wingnuts to set its eyes on the southern border. Sommer and Weill revisit the historical past of Q-inspired vigilante teams like “Veterans On Patrol” which have beforehand peddled wild theories, like falsely claiming that migrant youngsters had been being smuggled throughout the border in order that their blood might be combined into cement.
In the meantime, in different corners of the far proper, a curious mix of Silicon Valley reactionaries and disaffected downtown Manhattan sorts are coalescing into a brand new motion. James Pogue, a contributing editor at Harper’s, joins us to debate his latest Vainness Truthful article on the New Proper motion.
“On its fundamental degree, the New Proper is an rebel try to reshape the Republican occasion in a extra nationalist, deeply conservative route, type of like what you'll see with Marine Le Pen in France,” Pogue says.
Among the many combine are Peter Thiel-backed political candidates and bloggers who overtly lengthy for monarchy. Pogue notes that the motion is an uncommon amalgam of anti-liberal sorts, “a really unusual and type of febrile and diffuse motion, but it surely’s all a form of critique of the route of liberal society during the last 400 years.”
Lastly, a fringe candidate in Georgia’s GOP gubernatorial major is attempting to face out from the pack with an uncommon marketing campaign pledge: tearing down a granite monument that she claims is a New World Order statue. Kandiss Taylor, a third-place contender for the GOP nomination, says she’ll take away the Georgia Guidestones, a Stonehenge-like statue within the countryside.
Not even the residents in rural Georgia are on board, Sommer reviews, on account of native loyalty to the Guidestones, that are each a preferred roadside attraction and a testomony to the realm’s granite business
“I requested the mayor of Elberton,” the place the Guidestones are positioned, Sommer stated. “He stated ‘Perhaps she ought to give attention to the wonders of Elberton granite, fairly than watching so many YouTube movies.’”
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