This article examines the phenomenon of anti‐Trump witchcraft, popularized by Michael Hughes’s viral 2017 ritual (“A Spell to Bind Donald Trump and All Those Who Abet Him”), as an instance of register circulation and ultimately register synthesis. Drawing on a digital ethnography of the #MagicResistance movement, including videotaped rituals and interviews with practitioners, the analysis finds that practitioners use the affordance of register incongruity in mediatized online contexts to publicly intertwine the language of American witchcraft with political stance‐taking, disseminating indexical links between witchcraft and leftist political orientations. Practitioners variously characterize the language of #MagicResistance rituals as a mismatch between or a synthesis of two registers, demonstrating that register (in)congruity is interactionally constructed rather than prediscursive. Furthermore, practitioners emphasize the cathartic and empowering effects of ritual practice, showing how register circulation—often analyzed at the macrosocial level—manifests in relation to microsocial agency and affect.

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#MagicResistance：作为登记册流通的反特朗普巫术

本文研究了反特朗普巫术现象，这种现象在迈克尔·休斯（Michael Hughes）2017年的病毒式仪式中盛行（“将唐纳德·特朗普和所有教bet他的人捆绑在一起的法术”），以此作为寄存器流通和最终寄存器合成的实例。通过分析#MagicResistance运动的数字人种志，包括录像的仪式和对从业人员的采访，分析发现，从业人员在中介化的在线环境中使用寄存器不一致的情况来公开交织美国巫术的语言与政治立场，传播索引巫术与左派政治倾向之间的联系。从业人员将#MagicResistance仪式的语言描述为两种寄存器之间的不匹配或综合，证明一致性中的寄存器是交互构造的，而不是先驱性的。此外，从业人员强调仪式实践的宣泄作用和赋权作用，显示出经常在宏观社会层面进行分析的登记簿流通是如何体现与微观社会代理和影响有关的。