Daily conspiracy

[The Grand Nudger]

There is a large set of people who seem to be christian, anti-vax, anti-evolution, anti-science. Somehow, the idea that Donald is the second coming of Jesus has spread. They are all convinced that Joe Biden stole the election in Jan 2020 since their priests guaranteed to them that Donald is Jesus.
For a while, a lot of them believed that the government was going to put RFID chips under our skin.
A lot of them believed that you become magnetic when you take the COVID vaccine.
There is the 5G thing.
A large number of them have told me that christianity is not a religion. It is a relationship.
They all tend to be global warming deniers and that NASA faked the moon landing.
A bunch of them mention the Georgia Guidestones and that the government is going to reduce the population.
In 2020, 2021, 2022, they were telling me the lockdowns are permanent. A lot of them were fighting it by refusing to wear a mask.

Until recently, these were roughly distinct communities, with most of them believing that the others were The Problem™ (or part of the conspiracy) and that past circumstance persists today where the lines between them cause friction in the present movement.  Maga was the unifying principle.  A passive way of saying that the only thing which binds them all into a single moral community is their suspicion of the other - a strong belief that they are, somehow, being victimized together. In that context maga and maga conspiracy theorizing are a rational response to a percieved threat. Of outsiders and loons banding together and validating each other in the absence of what they perceive to be mainstream cultural approval. A telling insecurity in and of itself.

They all know better. None of them are as dumb as any of them make it all look.