Trusting QAnon, Dallas actor wanted D.C. riot to bring End Times. Now he faces charges

[TexasTowelie]

FORT WORTH -- A year of YouTube fantasies about children being killed and eaten under cover of the “deep state” took the Highland Park-bred grandson of a former Texas football coach to the steps of the U.S. Capitol Jan. 6.

Luke Coffee, 41, the actor grandson of 1960s TCU and University of Texas assistant coach Russell Coffee, thought he was going to Washington for the second coming — but not of Donald J. Trump.

Based on his own words, Coffee was among Capitol attackers who went not as Proud Boys or Oath Keepers, but as QAnon activists confusing religion and conspiracy, hoping to impose Christian rule and trigger the biblical second coming of Christ.

“A holy purge is happening, and it’s only from Jesus — it’s not from Donald J. Trump,” Coffee said over and over in videos, some still posted on social media.

Read more: https://www.star-telegram.com/news/politics-government/article249588498.html

[bucolic_frolic]

1. I'd call it delusional with a dose of paranoia

Us against them and they're all wrong and against us but we're smarter and know the truth but they don't.

[Vogon_Glory]

2. There's also a lack of trained skepticism

A lot of people who buy into this stuff never learn such life-skills as asking such simple questions as to who are the people pushing these stories, what are their bona fides, are they working a grift, and why should I believe them.