Kicked Out of Incel Club feat. James Pogue

Fever Dreams

The Daily Beast

News & Politics, Government

4.4 • 767 Ratings

🗓️ 11 May 2022

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

A newly nominated Republican congressional candidate in Ohio claims he’s not a QAnon guy, despite appearing to own an extensive wardrobe of QAnon merchandise. This week on Fever Dreams, we revisit J.R. Majewski, the next likely candidate to join Congress’s growing Q wing. Elsewhere, hosts Will Sommer and Kelly Weill discuss a falling-out among the white nationalist America First movement, which entered a bitter feud after its former treasurer got a girlfriend (a faux pas with the movement’s celibate leader). While that racist youth movement flounders, another is quietly amassing influence. Reporter James Pogue joins us to discuss the New Right movement, an anti-liberal alliance whose star candidate J.D. Vance just won his GOP nomination for Congress. Finally, we visit a more longshot candidate, who, if elected, pledges to blow up a Georgia monument that she believes is Satanic.

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm Will Summer. Welcome to The Daily Beast's Fever Dreams. I'm a politics reporter at The Daily Beast, and I'm currently working on a book about Q&ONN called Trust the Plan for Harper Collins coming out later this year.
0:09.9	And I'm Kelly Weil. I am also a reporter at The Daily Beast, and I'm the author of the book Off the Edge, Flat Earthers, Conspiracy Culture, and Why people will believe anything. On this podcast, we're going to take you on
0:21.1	plunges into the sometimes hilarious, sometimes scary fanatics, infecting the way that millions of
0:25.6	Americans view the world and how they vote. Even in the aftermath of the Trump administration,
0:30.4	the energy of these conspiracy theorists, grifters, and influencers is still pushing our mainstream
0:35.5	political landscape closer and closer to a breaking point.
0:39.8	All right. Fever Dreams. We got a big update for you. J.R. Majuski, the Q&ON congressional candidate in
0:46.6	Ohio we talked about last week. He won his primary. Kelly, what do you think this says about the
0:51.9	state of the Republican Party? Well, first of all, I think it's very unfair that you're calling him a Q&N candidate.
0:57.5	He says he's not a Q&N candidate, despite the fact that he spray-painted giant cues on his lawn.
1:03.1	Total coincidence.
1:04.5	Sometimes that happens.
1:05.4	Sometimes you just have to do cues on your lawn.
1:08.2	In all seriousness, right?
1:09.5	We talked last week about the growing QAnon caucus, and that's actually a thing now.
1:15.2	Like, there are now, what, three, four presumably elected Congress members who have been on
1:22.6	the record hyping this stuff for years before they took office.
1:26.7	This is an interesting guy. We talked about last week,
1:28.8	this guy had these various, his claim to fame was painting a Trump yard sign, like a massive one,
1:34.1	like 19,000 square feet that, you know, you could see from space or see from the air into his lawn.
1:39.2	And this got Trump into him. But after we recorded and after he won this primary last week,
1:43.6	I said, all right, let's get down to brass tax.
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