Not only did the internet allow the village idiots to meet up and delude each other further, the algos were like "Hey, they're super engaged and buying merch! This is great! I'll try to keep this going". Some of us just can't handle the internet. We clearly need to adjust things.

Is this movement done with the "save the children" tenet? The kids are all safe now? It's safe to say that QAnon-adjacent rhetoric is alive and well when the #3 House GOP member is implicitly calling Biden and the dems pedophiles (btw I've reached out to Stephen Miller to see if we're supposed to abort illegal fetuses so future illegal babies can't steal American baby formula, just waiting to hear back). And of course there's the "grooming" accusations leveled against anyone so much as acknowledging the existence of non-cis-hetero lifestyles that DeSantis et al. are codifying into law. Surprised that no talk of saving kids took place at this, uh, "conference", or at least wasn't prominent enough to make it into the article.

Were I the author, I would've noted the links between this movement and the Great Replacement conspiracy theory. Surely the overlap is bigly. Victimhood conspiracies are a core feature of Trumpism, after all.

Probably good to immortalize this, from veen in chat:

The difference between a ReAwaken America event and something like CPAC or a formally-sanctioned RNC event shrinks by the week. I know it's tempting to note the complete lack of braintrust behind it all (besides the billionaires funding things and the politicians pretending to believe the lies) and write it off as unthreatening, but I still can't. Honestly, I never knew how dangerous institutionalized stupid could be. Or that it was possible at all to have this much of it.