Each era projects a new group as the fixed bodily essence of evil

Evidence

With the cold war we add the communist. With the time bomb ticking inside the nuclear family, we add the feminists and the gays. The military and the New Right, like the conquerors of old, discover the evil they have imputed to these aliens, and mimic the savagery they have imputed. … To Taussig’s list, we must add the Arab/the Muslim. — Sherene Razack, Casting Out, 187

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Antichrist folklore makes every new supranational body a suspected Antichrist vehicle — Michael Barkun, A Culture of Conspiracy: Apocalyptic…, 257