10. Protest in the Age of Magickal Thinking

There's an uprising goin' on. But while the oppressed are uprising, and the cops are knocking heads, right-wing thugs are waiting to take advantage of the chaos for their own fiendish ends. And these ain't your daddy's racists: they believe in meme magick and wear aloha shirts.

In this episode of Failed State Update, I talk to two people who have devoted some serious time and effort to understanding Q Anon, the Boogaloo Bois, and other absurd modern manifestations of the radical right. 

Mike Rains is the host of the Poker Politics podcast, for those who want to get into the weeds of Q Anon analysis. 

CV Vitolo-Haddad is a researcher at the University of Wisconsin-Madison who studies the Alt-Right, Boogaloo Bois, and other fascist creeps.

Poker Politics podcast by Mike Rains: https://soundcloud.com/user-961354561

"Make a Whole New Religion: QAnon and the Age of Trump" by Mike Rains: https://medium.com/@pokerpolitics/make-a-whole-new-religion-1a0f0eae3f43

Mike Rains on Twitter: https://twitter.com/PokerPolitics

 CV Vitolo-Haddad on Twitter: https://twitter.com/notcolloquial

Joseph L. Flatley website: https://www.lennyflatley.net

Joseph L. Flatley twitter: https://twitter.com/lennyflatley

FAILED STATE UPDATE (the newsletter): https://lennyflatley.substack.com

Music:

"United" by Throbbing Gristle

"(Every Day Is) Halloween" by Ministry

"Love Missile F1-11" by Sigue Sigue Sputnik

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