The 4 a.m. Club, the brainchild of self-proclaimed psychic Gia Prism, may be the closest thing to QAnon among progressive and left-leaning people. The club is a confederation of spiritually inclined women who all claim to have woken up suddenly around 4 a.m. on November 6 with a sinking feeling that Donald Trump had won the election. But even after their intuitions were confirmed, they did not really believe that he won. The 4 a.m. Clubbers believe that Trump is president in an alternate reality. Although the “timelines split” at 4 a.m. on November 6, 2024, they hold that it is only a matter of time before everyone realizes this and gets back on the “correct” timeline, where Trump failed and Harris took her rightful place as POTUS. There are hundreds of videos with millions of views on TikTok, with additional chatter on left-wing Reddit, and their popularity has only grown since Trump’s inauguration. Many of these videos are made by self-proclaimed witches, mystics, mediums, clairvoyants, intuitives, and the like. Many members, it seems, are nurses with autoimmune disorders.
Just as QAnon believed that the 2020 election was stolen from Trump, the 4 a.m. Club believes it was stolen from Harris in 2024, and both movements see it as their job to alert the rest of the country to what’s happening right under their noses. When the timelines are corrected and Harris is president, the “Divine feminine” wins. “It’s more than just waking up that morning,” said one 4 a.m Clubber. “It’s actually about a Great Awakening.” The psychic Gia “downloads” her spiritual messages to followers, and some devotees refer to multiple “spirit guides,” which show them visions of Harris’s victory or tell them which members of Trump’s administration will eventually be prosecuted (such as Pam Bondi, Marco Rubio, and Kristi Noem). Whether the 4 a.m. Clubbers channel their spiritual beliefs into political action, as some QAnon followers did, may be doubtful, since they believe they can bring down the federal government from their lanais. In one video, Gia insists: “We’re toppling a regime via spiritual awakening.”
(Source: The Free Press, June 21)
