Salon: Right-wing Catholic boomlet grows: "Gun Girl" signs up with Mother Church - January 8, 2021

“ ‘Once the alt-right A term from the 2010s to describe far-right activists rooted in paleoconservatism with more explicit racism & xenophobia. Learn more disintegrated in 2018 and 2019, a number of them turned inward, toward religion, now that they’ve been de-platformed and their first attempts to change society have been rebuffed,’ said Ben Lorber, a research analyst at Political Research Associates who has studied Fuentes’ movement. ‘It seems like a way to get a foot back into the mainstream for people like [Yiannapoulos] who were excluded during the years of the alt-right.’”

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