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Cameron Cummins-Smith’s grand unifying theory connects the far right’s seemingly disparate obsessions—from trans panic and great replacement theory to anti-feminism and white birth-rate anxiety—into a single ideological system fueled by pornographic narratives: In physics there is this idea of a theory of everything: a single, unified model that can describe all physical phenomena in the universe. Real-world dark matter is part of the development of such a theory. When astrophysicists pointed their telescopes to the stars in the 1970s, they saw things that could not be explained. Either Newton and Einstein were wrong, or there was something they had missed. Dark matter was the proposed explanation: what if there is additional matter acting upon the universe that we simply cannot see? What I propose today is perhaps even more important than a physical theory of everything: a theory that can connect and explain the wide array of right-wing psychosexual neuroses. The theory is that…

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