Kamala Harris is reciting “occult… Luciferian incantations,” says major anti-LGBTQ+ activist

James Lindsay, a prominent anti-LGBTQ+ activist who claims credit for coming up with the “groomer” slur and was listed as one of the biggest sources of anti-trans misinformation in social media in 2022, believes he figured out a secret to Vice President Kamala Harris: She’s reciting a “Marxist and Luciferian” incantation.

Lindsay, who first made national headlines after he faked an academic study to discredit gender and critical race studies, shared a video put together by the Republican party that’s a compilation of Harris using the phrase “what can be, unburdened by what has been.” It’s an expression she uses a lot — politicians often repeat themselves many times as they give canned speeches to different audiences — and it’s a phrase that a lot of Democrats this morning were repeating on social media because it’s so closely associated with her speaking style.

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But instead of just noting that Harris uses that vaguely inspirational phrase a lot — a phrase that suggests people can be and do more than they were allowed to in the past — Lindsay decided there had to be a deeper, darker meaning to it.

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“This phrase, which she repeats all the time, is not mysterious,” he wrote, even though it’s not clear anyone thought it was mysterious in the first place. “It’s esoteric. That is, it’s occult. It’s a Marxist and Luciferian incantation, and that’s easily seen.”

Let's talk about @KamalaHarris saying "to see what can be, unburdened by what has been." This phrase, which she repeats all the time, is not mysterious. It's esoteric. That is, it's occult. It's a Marxist and Luciferian incantation, and that's easily seen.pic.twitter.com/SUGOJS0cFH

— James Lindsay, anti-Communist (@ConceptualJames) July 21, 2024

He insisted in subsequent posts on X that the “people who know, know” and that it’s “coded and Gnostic in its formulation and the principle she’s articulating is ultimately Luciferian/Hermetic, a la Marx.”

Lindsay then said that she often raises her right hand while saying this phrase and posted a picture of a Baphomet statue with wings and goat horns doing the same gesture, perhaps implying that Satan himself makes the same gesture. While modern-day Satanists have adopted Baphomet as a religious figure, he originated as an occult deity.

He then explained that Karl Marx saw Communism as something that will happen in the future when the proletariat wants to be “unburdened by class antagonisms,” and Harris’s phrase is also about the future, so they’re pretty much the same thing.

We can set aside the hand gesture she typically makes while uttering this incantation, although we shouldn't. It's blatantly up on the right (what can be, a worldly utopia) and down on the left (unburdened by, or liberated/emancipated from the mundane status quo). pic.twitter.com/T4aTefKwxo

— James Lindsay, anti-Communist (@ConceptualJames) July 21, 2024

After several long-winded posts about Marx, Lindsay then said that Harris’s expression harkens to queer theory, which he said is the same as “Queer Marxism,” even though it is not. (Marxism is a modernist thought system primarily about economics, and queer theory is postmodern, more wide-reaching, and, at times, anti-Marxist, refuting the idea of universal truths that Marxism relies on).

“Queerness is not yet here. Queerness is an ideality,” he quoted from an unidentified writer, claiming that this is pretty much what Harris was saying.

“How clearly does it have to be written to see it?” Lindsay wrote as he rambled on for several more posts on X.

Then he compared Harris’s phrase to critical race theory, another conservative bogeyman, because critical race theory wants to build “an ‘anti-racist’ society… one that can see or imagine ‘what can be, unburdened by what has been,'” he claimed, again relying on the idea that thinking about the future at all is what ties all these contradictory schools of thought together with “Lucifer’s revolt against Heaven.”

“I’ll sum up here, though so much more could be said,” Lindsay wrote after several dozen posts. “We’re undergoing a global French (or Communist) Revolution, which will have disastrous results. Kamala Harris chants the Marxist/Luciferian incantation of that evil agenda: ‘to see what can be, unburdened by what has been.'”

Right-wingers have long lumped Satanism, Marxism, and postmodernism together as enemies of Christianity and American culture, but even Lindsay’s right-wing fans seemed skeptical about his theory.

“She just picked out words that she thinks sound fancy together and tried them on like oral jewelry,” Marina Medvin — who calls herself a “conservative firebrand” in her bio — responded.

You make it sound like she thought it through. I think she just picked out words that she thinks sound fancy together and tried them on like oral jewelry

— Marina Medvin 🇺🇸 (@MarinaMedvin) July 22, 2024

“I’m sure this take seems quite reasonable while tripping on mushrooms,” Bruce Wilson responded.

I'm sure this takes seems quite reasonable while tripping on mushrooms.

— Bruce Wilson (@brucewilson) July 21, 2024

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