Demands for the existence and implementation of a “New World Order” spread online after President Joe Biden used the phrase in a speech.
While the term “new world order” is commonly used to denote a significant geopolitical change, it can also refer to a conspiracy theory that states that a mysterious globalist authority is trying to control the world under a totalitarian regime and sovereign countries and its citizens Freedom.
Several conservatives and conspiracy theorists, including supporters of the radical QAnon movement, quickly jumped on the bandwagon with the words while speaking at the Business Roundtable CEO Quarterly Meeting in Washington DC on Monday.
During the speech, Biden described how “there are significant opportunities for some real change” in responding to the world’s invasion of Russia and Ukraine, adding that it was currently at an “inflection point” that happens every few generations.
“As one of the top military men told me the other day in a secure meeting, between 1900 and 1946, 60 million people died. And since then, we have established a liberal world order, and that has not happened for a long time, meanwhile,” Biden said. “Many people are dying, but nowhere is the chaos.
“And now is a time when things are changing. There’s a new world order out there, and we have to lead it. And we have to unite the rest of the free world and do it.”
Some people online have used bids with the phrase “new world order” to confirm the existence of the said conspiracy theory.
The sentence was still one of the top trend topics on Twitter as of Tuesday morning.
Comments were also widely shared in QAnon Telegram accounts, Newsweek found.
One account, CBK, which has more than 141,000 subscribers, shared the clip with the caption: “They just say it out loud right now … right in our faces.”
While sharing a clip of Biden’s speech, Monica Crowley, former assistant secretary of public affairs at the Treasury Department under Donald Trump, tweeted: “The big resets should know that the weak invalid is voicing the plan.”
Crowley’s comments were retweeted by the current spokeswoman for former president Liz Harrington.
GOP Congress candidate Errol Webber tweeted on Monday: “Joe Biden has just declared that a new world order is coming. Another conspiracy theory is coming true.”
In his Twitter bio, Webber wrote that he was supported by Michael Flynn, the former national security adviser under Trump, who was transformed into one of the biggest figures in the QAnon movement.
Additionally, Joey Gilbert, a Jan. 6 demonstrator in Washington DC who is now a GOP candidate running for governor of Nevada, tweeted, “I want nothing to do with this ‘New World Order’.” Who’s with me? “
Robby Starbuck, a Republican hoping to get elected in Tennessee’s 5th congressional district, wrote: “I do not want Joe Biden to lead a line for Jello in a nursing home, let alone the world.
“The nuts that our losses have brought to create a ‘New World Order’ are appalling.”
Others were quick to dismiss any suggestion that Biden actually meant his intention to implement a “new world order” with his remarks.
Left-leaning news and analysis site PoliticusUSA editor Sarah Reese Jones tweeted: “Kluew: If President Biden were really part of the right-wing conspiracy theory re New World Order, he probably would not mention it in a speech.”
Author, journalist and lawyer Seth Abramson commented: “THE RIGHT: Biden says the words ‘new’ and ‘world’ and ‘order’ in succession prove our disturbed conspiracy theory true in every particular way.
The “New World Order” conspiracy theory first originated in the 1990s and has links to anti-Semitic tropes that Jewish people secretly control the world media, banks and governments.
As noted by the Anti-Defamation League, people who believe in this “New World Order” think that concentration camps have already been built in the USA and are ready to house “Dissenters”. They also tend to believe that the government will soon declare martial law, possible under the guise of responding to a terrorist attack, and then the people will take away their weapons.
The White House has been contacted for comment.
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