....And then there was this, Trump's biggest Q "drop" of the night, an escalation that should concern us all: Biden, he said, will "subsidize late-term abortion and after-birth execution." After-birth execution. This is Pizzagate rhetoric straight from the president's mouth, a pillar conviction of QAnon, the remarkably widespread belief among his supporters that Democratic elites traffic children, ritually kill them (cue Protocols of the Elders of Zion again), and even eat them. The first time a Trumper told me Democratic elites practice cannibalism, I dismissed it as fringe. By perhaps the fourth or fifth time, I understood cannibalism to be part of the mythos, a minority belief within Trumpism but a potent one in that it validates as "moderate" the belief that the Clinton-Obama–Biden axis merely abuses children.
This obsession with what is done to the bodies of children by Democrats is, like the rape fantasies with which Trump has taken to lacing his rally speeches, grossly sexualized. It is the most violent pedophilia of all, projected onto Trump's enemies. It allows his followers to wallow in the most grotesquely taboo thoughts and to relish the revenge they'll take on those whom they imagine actually committing such horrors. And it's an escalation of the any-means-necessary methods of abortion-clinic bombers. If you really believe abortion is murder, isn't assassination justified? Take that view up (or down) a notch: If you really believe Democrats are raping and eating children, what punishment would not be merited? What rage would not be righteous? The Trump rally—the collective voicing of such fantasies, their sanctification by way of the flag and, implicitly, the cross—is the ritual by which Trump remakes the American dream into a fetish for revenge.....
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2020/06/decoding-the-grotesque-symbolism-of-trumps-tulsa-rally
This obsession with what is done to the bodies of children by Democrats is, like the rape fantasies with which Trump has taken to lacing his rally speeches, grossly sexualized. It is the most violent pedophilia of all, projected onto Trump's enemies. It allows his followers to wallow in the most grotesquely taboo thoughts and to relish the revenge they'll take on those whom they imagine actually committing such horrors. And it's an escalation of the any-means-necessary methods of abortion-clinic bombers. If you really believe abortion is murder, isn't assassination justified? Take that view up (or down) a notch: If you really believe Democrats are raping and eating children, what punishment would not be merited? What rage would not be righteous? The Trump rally—the collective voicing of such fantasies, their sanctification by way of the flag and, implicitly, the cross—is the ritual by which Trump remakes the American dream into a fetish for revenge.....
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2020/06/decoding-the-grotesque-symbolism-of-trumps-tulsa-rally
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