The difference between reactionaries, say, ten years ago and today is the sense of impending doom. Starting with Michael Anton’s Flight 93 article, intellectual leaders of the far right have told the flock that the end is nigh if the next election isn’t won. White Christians, they say, face cultural annihilation. It’s just a matter of time until they wind up in concentration camps if the left remains in control of America. Their only hope is to do whatever it takes to guarantee that the left is permanently excluded from power. Hence, January 6 and its aftermath.
This is, of course, a paranoid dream with absolutely no basis in reality; white Christians may not be politically or culturally dominant in this country, but their rights to speak and worship as they please are not under threat. Wouldn’t it be great if Biden went on national TV and said so? Why can’t he demand to see the evidence that we have moved towards a woke dictatorship during his presidency?
If he can’t make that case, nobody can.