QAnon and the new right wing fundamentalism

Abstract

This paper focuses on the phenomenon of QAnon – a newly shaped social, political and quasi religious movement that emerged in recent years as one of the most profound examples of the new right wing radicalism in the United States. The mentioned movement has a significant impact on how contemporary American religiosity and religious driven politics are being transformed and how this transformation affect the public discourse. The paper highlights the most importnat aspects of QAnon and puts them in a larger context of the conservative turn not just in the US politics but also globally. Thus the paper’s thesis is based on the assumption that movements like QAnon fill a gap which was neglected for a long time by liberal politics and as a religious phenomenon they influence from the bottom up the political, social and religious mainstream.