Nicholas Fuentes' Groyper Army and "America First"
The last year has been difficult for members of the alt right crowd as they got de-platformed and rounded up for being insurrectionists.The hunt for traitors has extended into the halls of Congress, and the executive wing, according to the Jan. 6 Select Committee.
Like the white supremacist's movement to reframe their message, a couple of decades ago, Maga morons are trying to get legitimized by finding religion. You may be aware that many evangelicals already support Trump acolytes.
Not so commonly known is the fact that Stop the Steal founder Ali Alexander made a splashy announcement of his conversion to the Catholic Church only days before he helped direct a mob of protestors to the Capitol.
Several months later, in mid-March, disgraced former Breitbart writer and alt-right star Milo Yiannopoulos told LifeSiteNews that joining the Catholic Church had helped him become "ex-gay."
He has been joined by a number of other far-right figures who have conspicuously intertwined their political advocacy with right-wing Catholicism, including Jack Posobiec, the Pizzagate promoter turned right-wing commentator, and Nicholas Fuentes, the youthful founder of the America First or "groyper" movement, who has built a massive online following.
Watching the growing political polarization within the world's largest religious denomination, is damning evidence of the far right's efforts to infuse their actions with a spiritual purpose.
The far right is using Catholic imagery as an identity marker to give themselves a sense that what they do is blessed from above.
It's cynical and immoral. But it's happening. Now it's up to the mainstream Catholic Church to purge the political virus infecting their message of love and peace.
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