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Alot of these conservative “movements” come and go pretty quickly, seemingly overnight, as soon as they’ve fulfilled whatever use they had. They’ll pop up to rant & rave and grab headlines for whatever idiotic/heartless/cruel thing. Then, after a few waves of outrage and meme counter-attacks, when the spotlight is starting to fade, it’s like whatever group originally funded them pulls the plug and they just sort of disappear.
I’ve never seen any as…. influential as them though. As shitty as they are/were, in my mind, it’s never been that bad before.
They seemed to have gotten a lot of boost from the pandemic beyond what they normally would’ve all with a satanic panic style outrage
That's odd, because I remember their height as the 2016 election through (maybe) 2019.
Pandemic helped bring in more of the left leaning granola folks than would usually happen. Antivax and antilockdown to Q-anon pipeline.
They don't disappear, the people still exist. They just change the justification for their actions. They can't say out loud their real motivation: they desire a hierarchy where they are on top and others are below them.
Just remember that. It's not about democracy or freedom or even religion or the economy. Conservatives want to be on top. They want an authoritarian leader to put everyone in their place. Do not argue with them about policy details. They value hierarchy more than anything.