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We talked about the Christian nationalists who showed up on January 6, with a focus on the homeschooling movement, anti-choicers and some charismatic/New Apostolic Reformation types. https://twitter.com/CRightcast/status/1351241371370328065?s=19
In particular, I think the homeschooling movement is a very efficient way of steering young people into just this kind of extremism.
Unless you've been up close to this, it's hard to understand the (1) paranoia about Christians being "outnumbered" that tracks with racist "white replacement theory" and (2) anti-government extremism that feeds into anti-government militia groups.
It's all there.
It's all there.
The fear of being "replaced" is the impetus for the mega-family Quiverfull phenomenon, very popular in homeschooling circles.
So I wasn't surprised that we saw multiple members of prominent Quiverfull homeschooling families on January 6.
So I wasn't surprised that we saw multiple members of prominent Quiverfull homeschooling families on January 6.
And I wasn't surprised when a childhood friend who grew up this way was outed as a Proud Boy cop a few weeks ago.
That family used to hide their children from the census so the federal government wouldn't know they existed.
That family used to hide their children from the census so the federal government wouldn't know they existed.
So the paranoia about secular government and about "Christian replacement" is huge.
