End of Days: Ruby Ridge, the Apocalypse, and the Unmaking of America by Chris Jennings

End of Days: Ruby Ridge, the Apocalypse, and the Unmaking of America

by Chris Jennings

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Ruby Ridge usually gets told as a botched federal raid. Jennings's case is that the Weavers read the 1992 siege through end-times prophecy, and that the standoff became a founding story for the antigovernment conspiracy thinking that runs from Waco to QAnon.

Core ideas
  • From a shotgun charge: Selling two shortened shotguns to an ATF informant ended in an eleven-day siege, after FBI leaders loosened the rules of engagement and a sniper killed Vicki Weaver.
  • Two realities: The family saw prophecy being fulfilled, with a theology that runs back through Reagan-era televangelists to 1870s interpretations of biblical prophecy.
  • The edited legend: Militia retellings played up gun rights and federal overreach while playing down the white-power context of the Weavers' world.
Published2026
Pages384
ISBN9780316381949
ReadApr 2026

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