This article examines the politics of American “doomsday” prepping during Barack Obama's presidency. It challenges claims that growing interest in prepping post-2008 arose exclusively from extreme apocalyptic, white supremacist, and anti-government reactions to Obama's electoral successes – claims that suggest prepping to be politically congruent with previous waves of extreme right-wing American “survivalism.” Drawing on ethnography, this paper argues that, while fears of Obama have been central to many preppers’ activities, much of their prepping under his presidency centred on fears that sit outside survivalist politics. Building on this, the article illuminates connections between prepping and America's twenty-first-century electoral mainstream. Engaging with discussions about the “remaking” of American conservatism during Obama's presidency, it particularly frames prepping's growth as being engaged with, and shaped by, currents of mainstream anti-Obama fear that similarly undergirded the Tea Party's rise within popular Republicanism at this time.

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奥巴马格登：恐惧、极右翼和“世界末日”准备在奥巴马的美国的崛起

本文探讨了巴拉克奥巴马总统任期内美国“世界末日”的政治准备。它挑战了对 2008 年后准备工作的兴趣日益增长的说法，这些说法完全源于极端世界末日、白人至上主义和反政府对奥巴马选举成功的反应——这些说法表明准备在政治上与美国前几波极右翼“生存主义”保持一致。 ” 本文借鉴民族志，认为虽然对奥巴马的恐惧是许多准备者活动的核心，但在他担任总统期间，他们的大部分准备都集中在生存主义政治之外的恐惧上。在此基础上，文章阐明了准备工作与美国 21 世纪选举主流之间的联系。