An antidemocratic insurgency takes shape: Old ideological lines vanish as QAnon, militias meld

An antidemocratic insurgency takes shape: Old ideological lines vanish as QAnon, militias meld

Feb 05, 2021 5:18pm Eastern Standard Time 

by David Neiwert, Daily Kos Staff

https://m.dailykos.com/stories/2021/2/5/2014262/-An-antidemocratic-insurgency-takes-shape-Old-ideological-lines-vanish-as-QAnon-militias-meld

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The question about the QAnon cult that lingers in many people’s minds is, “Where will they turn as the multiple failures of Q predictions begin to mount and their authoritarian belief in Donald Trump falls apart?” We’re starting to get an answer: The vigilante militia movement and white nationalism.

Militia groups in Georgia, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports, are forming alliances with an array of other Trump-supporting far-right organizations, including the QAnon groups aligned with Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene. It reflects a much broader trend in the post-Trump world of the radical right in which what used to be distinct movements with widely differing sets of beliefs are commingling and coalescing into a singular far-right insurgency against liberal democracy.

The goal of the Georgia groups, according to Justin Thayer of the Georgia III% Martyrs, is to advocate for the state’s secession from the United States. He says the final straw was the arrests of people who were involved in the Jan. 6 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol.

“The way patriots are now being hunted down and arrested by fellow men and women who have taken the same oath has disheartened any faith I had in the redemption or reformation of the USA as one entity,” Thayer told the Journal-Constitution.

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