New Age practices may feed an irrationalist political movement

Evidence

Astrology, manifestation, and pseudoscientific health trends may have been seen as harmless when contained in a cultural space—but what would woo-woo political rebellion look like? — W. David Marx, Blank Space, 614

Categorization

• QUESTION: Worth chasing: does ‘woo-woo political rebellion’ connect to QAnon’s conspiratorial cosmology? This frames the entire Trump-era argument Marx is building.
• SEED: Article angle: tracing the pathway from wellness-culture manifestation and astrology into conspiratorial political belief — the spiritualist roots of QAnon.