Recommended Reading: Understanding the 'Groomer' Panic, QAnon and Evangelicals, and the GOP’s 'Invasion' Narrative
Recommended Reading: Understanding the 'Groomer' Panic, QAnon and Evangelicals, and the GOP’s 'Invasion' Narrative
The Week's Recommended Reading on Substack: Lyz Lenz, Amanda Moore, Melissa del Bosque, Jared Yates Sexton, Noah Berlatsky, and Diana Butler Bass.
The Week's Recommended Reading on Substack:
Lyz Lenz writes that the “mythology of queer people being predators is old and rote but is currently resurging, this time remixed with the QAnon “Democrats are a pedophilic cabal” theme song and garden-variety transphobia.”
Amanda Moore writes that “when you’ve spent your entire life believing you are living in the end times, equipped with a blueprint for the inevitable, horrible path the world is on, it’s exciting and vindicating to believe you are standing up for good.”
Melissa del Bosque writes that “fearmongering has deadly consequences for border communities. After mass shootings in El Paso and Buffalo, the gunmen left behind manifestos full of invasion and great replacement rhetoric meant to justify the killing of Latino and Black border residents.”
Jared Yates Sexton writes that “for all of the talk of ‘the walls closing in’ and ‘this is the thing that gets him,’ even this delay in arresting and prosecuting him after he has been caught dead-to-rights stealing state secrets (whether it was out of shoddiness, vanity, or in the pursuit of treasonous profit) exposes how undeniably biased all of this truly is.”
Noah Berlatsky writes that “conservative judges are ideologically committed to using the bench to reshape society, and Cannon, who’s been a federalist society member since 2005, is no exception. They fail to meet professional standards because they have contempt for those standards. They do not think their movement should be constrained by law.”
Diana Butler Bass writes that “this political story is well known, even in secular circles. But what is far less well-known is the fight over evangelical history that occurred in tandem with the development of the religious right. In the same years that conservative evangelicals were organizing around particular issues, they were rewriting American history to match their political aspirations.”
