As someone who’s hung out in anti-vaccine spaces, moseyed through QAnon chats, and generally kept an eye on the tenor of far-right chatter over the space of years, the chats feel remarkably canned; though rejuvenated by the new energy of those who want to participate in truck-based heroics, they are otherwise a pastiche of long-extant conspiracy theories, injected with novel urgency for a pandemic age. They’re all here, all the hoary old dog-whistles: the Rothschilds, the impeding One World Government and New World Order, the specter of Communist takeover, George Soros, the Illuminati, a cabal of pedophiles that rule the world, illicit cloning, 5G death rays, Queen Elizabeth and the Archbishop of Canterbury about to be arrested for pharmaceutical trafficking, antisemitism explicit and implicit, et alius.

https://theswordandthesandwich.substack.com/p/situation-normal-all-trucked-up?utm_source=url