![]() “We’re going to raise our voices in defence of our fellow Americans who’ve had their rights and due process violated,” rally planner Matt Braynard said in a video posted on his organisation, Look Ahead America’s website. Two other #JusticeforJ6 rallies are planned in North Carolina and Washington state on the same day with 14 more scheduled in other states on September 25 and one on October 2. Organised by a former staffer for Donald Trump’s 2020 presidential campaign and labelled with the hashtag #JusticeforJ6, the rally in Washington, DC, has a permit allowing 500 people to gather. They contend Ashli Babbitt, a Trump supporter and QAnon adherent shot by police while part of a mob storming the Capitol trying to get to legislators, was wrongly killed on January 6. The protesters’ message: the January 6 rioters arrested in the breach of the Capitol are “political prisoners” who are being unfairly prosecuted by the FBI and the Department of Justice. While espousing this garbage is a business model for these channels, it has massive impacts on Americans – many of whom are living in a conspiracy theory that they have been tricked into thinking is the real world.United States Capitol Police and the FBI are on high alert ahead of a rally in Washington, DC, planned on September 18 to demonstrate support for people arrested after the January 6 pro-Trump riot at the Capitol – an event that continues to shape American politics. The Point : The rise of far-right channels like OAN and Newsmax has led to a massive amount of disinformation flowing through American democracy. (Overall, 15% of people believe the Satan-worshipping thing, 20% believe a storm is coming and 15% think violence may be necessary to save the country.) ![]() Still not great! But slightly less terrifying than the numbers among those who trust OAN and Newsmax most. One in 4 (27%) say violence may be necessary to save the country. Less than 1 in 5 (18%) say the government and media are “controlled by a group of Satan-worshipping pedophiles.” One in 3 say a “storm” is coming to sweep out elites. Now compare the numbers on those same questions among people who say they trust Fox News most. Worth noting: QAnon has as its central tenet that Trump was installed as president by the military and would eventually arrest major Democratic figures for sex crimes. * More than 4 in 10 say they agree that “because things have gotten so far off track, true American patriots may have to resort to violence in order to save our country.”Īll three of those statements are beliefs held by the QAnon conspiracy movement, which has been completely and thoroughly debunked any number of times. * Almost half (48%) believe that “there is a storm coming soon that will sweep away the elites in power and restore the rightful leaders.” * Four in 10 (40%) agree with the statement that “the government, media, and financial worlds in the US are controlled by a group of Satan-worshipping pedophiles who run a global child sex trafficking operation.” But a new PRRI national poll shows how corrosive the creation of a media subservient to Trump (and the various conspiracy theories that have grown up around him/he has helped stoke) is for the body politic.Īmong those respondents who say they most trust far-right news organizations: Trump, in his final year or so, would regularly call out Fox News for its lack of total fealty to him – and urge his supporters to go somewhere (like OAN and Newsmax) where they could get nothing but good news on him and his presidency. One of the many noxious developments of Donald Trump’s presidency was the rise of several cable TV outlets that aimed to out-Fox Fox News.Īs in, Fox News wasn’t Trump-y enough, so more pro-Trump alternatives were required, with Newsmax and OAN emerging as the preferred options.
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