But those masses weren’t necessarily wise to the game Locke is playing. The thousands of people making the pilgrimage to Mt. Juliet every week aren’t aware that Locke actually thinks QAnon is a joke, or that he actually wishes people didn’t bring guns to his church, or that he actually believes “Christian nationalism” is a contradiction in terms. They aren’t aware of any of that because Locke doesn’t tell them. Like so many celebrity shot-callers on the Christian right, Locke sees this charade for what it really is, but does everything possible to make sure that his followers don’t.
