'I Think All the Christians Get Slaughtered': Inside the MAGA Road Show Barnstorming America

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For @RollingStone, I went behind the scenes at Clay Clark’s traveling MAGA pageant, a national tour that is equal parts campaign rally, religious revival and three-ring circus

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‘I Think All the Christians Get Slaughtered’: Inside the MAGA Road Show Barnstorming America
ReAwaken America founder Clay Clark saw himself as an entrepreneur destined for greatness. When the pandemic hit, he found his new product: culture-war spectacle.
2:22 PM · Sep 17, 2022

https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/clay-clark-reawaken-america-maga-tour-trump-1234594574/

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THE CAST ASSEMBLES on the megachurch stage, each taking their turn in a pool of light.

There are doomsaying prophets with curved shofars, aspiring politicians lamenting election fraud, and naturopathic physicians warning of demonic invasion. Mike Lindell steps forward and says evil forces are undoing the nation. Roger Stone gives an apocalyptic homily. Michael Flynn lobs T-shirts into the pews. Scott McKay, alias Patriot Streetfighter, gyrates to the sounds of AC/DC while chopping a tomahawk in the air. In time, the Trump brothers appear and Eric puts his dad on speaker phone.

Praise music floats in the air and the crowd rocks back and forth. At one moment, a woman drops to the floor — “Hallelujah, hallelujah” — and speaks in tongues.

Standing at stage-right, surveying the festivities this July night in Virginia Beach, is a tall, bespectacled 41-year-old man named Clay Clark. With cropped blond hair and a toothy grin, he steps up to the lectern between each act, standing near a variety show gong. “Alright, ladies and gentlemen, how many of you believe Jesus is king? How many of you believe that Donald J. Trump is their president?” Whoops from the pews. “How many of you believe that Michael Flynn is America’s general?” More applause. “And how many of you believe in the power of prayer?”

Equal parts tent revival, campaign rally, and three-ring circus, this is the latest stop on the ReAwaken America Tour, a monthly MAGA pageant that fills megachurches across the country. Before last year, Clark was a provincial talk-show personality and business guru from Oklahoma; today he is a Vince McMahon frontman of a misinformation megashow. Here, the election was stolen from Trump; the pandemic is a horrific hoax; and a cabal of Luciferian cultists, including George Soros, seek world domination. There are End Times oracles, exorcists, multilevel marketers, New Agey health gurus, naturopathic bodybuilders, and QAnon crusaders all swaying together under one tent.

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[OAITW r.2.0]

1. RAT - ReAwaken America Tour

A fitting anacronym.

[Solly Mack]

2. And me without any lions. Damn.

I read the article. Yes, scary people.

[msongs]

3. better produced than the nuremburg rallies nt

[sop]

4. The new GOP: hucksters, religious charlatans and snake oil salesmen.