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Antichrist? What’s that?

Why you hear abut 'The Antichrist' whenever election season rolls around

Luke Coppen
Dec 06, 2023
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According to the website Google Trends, searches for the term “antichrist” spiked in the United States in November 2008, the month that Barack Obama was elected president.

There was another, smaller peak in November 2016, when Donald Trump was elected to the White House. 

A detail from Luca Signorelli's 1501 painting ‘The Preaching of the Antichrist’ in O…

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