Monster in the Mirror is a spinoff series by Straight White American Jesus - written and created by Lucas Kwong.

This series examines how narratives perfected in novels like Dracula and War of the Worlds, prototyped the conspiratorial blend of fact, fiction, and faith that has become “all the rage” on the contemporary American Right–in more ways than one.
With its millenarian fantasies of “taking America back for God,” U.S. Christian nationalism has received analysis as a spur to extremist violence, a political theology birthed in the Reagan era, and the latest iteration of an American preoccupation with manifest destiny. But the narrative of heroic white Christians rallying against a foreign and sexually ambiguous threat also finds precedent in an unexpected source: the vampires, mummies, and aliens of late Victorian fiction.

Monster in the Mirror

Very interesting hypotheses on historical roots in literature for some of the current thinking among the Christian Right. At times the correlations are too forced and a bit tedious. Less audio distractions of music, sound effects and voice distortion would have been a plus.

Very interesting....

So well made and told. Very creative. So glad SWAJ highlighted it. 
I’d like to hear more from Lucas. 
Great job!

Amazing show!

Every episode is filled with audio surprises, fascinating connections, and personal insights. Establishes a clear connection between Victorian horror lit and the apocalyptic scenarios of white supremacy.

A brilliant, creative, artistic and entertaining audio dissertation

This was an amazing series that brings together legit scholarship about famous monster stories from the end of the 19th century and their relevance with white Christian nationalism. But if that sounds too dry, it’s not! There’s creative narrations, journalistic audio excerpts, sound design, original music, the works. Give it your attention.