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The Apocalypse Never Dies, It Just Gets Weirder

Thomas Leacque on the mix of right wing conspiracy theories and evangelicalism, and why it is becoming more toxic.

Jim Swift
Oct 6, 2021
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All hail the sudden death wild card game!

Apparently, people hate it! But I’m among those who love it. While I’d prefer, as an Indians fan, to pretend the 1997 season never happened, the Cardinals are one of four teams to win the wild card… and then win it all. That 2011 World Series was one of the best I’ve ever seen. Heck, so were the Nats in 2019.

Even though the result wasn’t to my liking, Game 7 of the 2016 World Series, which I got to see in person, was one for the memory books. Wild card teams make things interesting. And tonight, I’ll be celebrating my birthday watching my college-town Cardinals, home of my wife and my late grandmother, cheering on the red birds. Should they pull it out, perhaps I can orchestrate a friendly bet with ou

Let’s Go Cards!

Leading The Bulwark…

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The Apocalypse Never Dies, It Just Gets Weirder

THOMAS LECAQUE: Steve Bannon is talking to a gun cult. Dozens of QAnon adherents are running for Congress. The mix of conspiracy theories and evangelicalism is becoming more toxic.

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šŸŽ§ On the Pods… šŸŽ§

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Sinema's silence gets decoded, and The Big Lie officially becomes The Great Grift. Josh Kraushaar joins Charlie Sykes on today's podcast and breaks down the neck-and neck governor's race in Virginia and the politics of Arizona.

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MORNING SHOTS: We Live In An Age of Grift šŸ”

CHARLIE SYKES has an update on civility, which is having a bad week.

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CHARLIE SYKES: Declining powers are willing to take risks.

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  • ā€˜I Was Part of Something Unusually Evil’ - Olivia Nuzzi, Intelligencer

  • What We Lost When Gannett Came to Town - Elaine Godfrey, The Atlantic

  • Biden Team Seeks to Pare Back Economic Agenda in Strategy Shift - Nancy Cook and Billy House, Bloomberg Businessweek

  • Democrats' infrastructure delays squeeze an endangered species: GOP centrists - Chris Beavers, Politico

  • Biden’s Approval Rating Isn’t Bouncing Back - Nathaniel Rakich, FiveThirtyEight

  • National Cathedral bell to toll 700 times to mark 700K COVID-19 deaths - Olafimihan Oshin, The Hill

In Today’s Bulwark...

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🚨OVERTIME 🚨

On the jukebox… Really looking forward to the Richard Ashcroft album next month.

We’re gonna see a lot more of this. Sadly.

Twitter avatar for @baltimoresunThe Baltimore Sun @baltimoresun
A Cumberland man killed his brother and sister-in-law in their Ellicott City home last week because his brother, a pharmacist, administered COVID-19 vaccines, according to Howard County court documents.
Maryland man allegedly fatally shot his pharmacist brother for ā€˜killing people’ with the COVID vaccine, court records showA Cumberland man killed his brother and sister-in-law in their Ellicott City home last week because his brother, a pharmacist, administered COVID-19 vaccines, according to Howard County court documents.baltimoresun.com

October 6th 2021

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OAN’s Sugar Daddy… It’s AT&T. Heck, it might even be you. Or me. I pay for FIOS and they carry this insanity. And full disclosure, I went on the channel probably 5 dozen times in the pre-Trump era for precisely $0 and a lot of free hatemail. Which is why I don’t do TV anymore. See if you can guess what went wrong here:

ā€œConversations like this can be intenseā€¦ā€ I wish Twitter issued this warning for all of my tweets.

WTF is going on in Idaho? Idaho’s Lt. Gov. is making Al Haig blush.

Twitter avatar for @GovernorLittleBrad Little @GovernorLittle
I will be rescinding and reversing any actions taken by the Lt. Governor when I return.
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October 5th 2021

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Boooooo! This is what happened when Lindsey Graham promoted vaccines to GOP voters. Why do the leopards keep eating my face, he wondered?

10 years later… We’re still at it!

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That’s it for me for today. We’ll see you back here tomorrow. Tech support questions? Email support@substack.com. Questions for me? Drop me a line: swift@thebulwark.com

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