In Oklahoma, a domestic militia calling itself “Veterans on Patrol” is systematically targeting weather radars. Their leader, Michael Lewis Arthur Meyer, claims the military is controlling the weather through Doppler radar systems and that these machines are part of a divine affront — a “weather weapon” — that is “mocking God Himself.”
He’s encouraging his followers to sabotage these radars under an operation he calls “Leaning Tower.” This isn’t just fringe paranoia: it’s part of a growing anti-reality insurgency that threatens our democracy itself.
In a few decades the Tea Party, MAGA, and various formerly fringe conspiracy groups will be used as case studies for how an externally boosted and manipulated movement inevitably outgrows its handlers and blazes out of control, burning the hand that feeds.
Or maybe not. Nobody seems to have learned anything from all the other foreign-backed revolutionary groups that ended horribly, after all.