This study undertakes an intensive analysis of The Wanderer, an ultra-conservative Catholic weekly newspaper. It is argued that conspiracy discourse in The Wanderer provides a continuous series of "god" and "devil" terms that play off one another as "generic warrants"—authorizing a domino effect that solidifies an over-arching rhetorical vision, which ultimately affects the interpretation of U.S. Roman Catholic Church doctrine and its application to a number of contemporary socio-political issues. Discourse emanating from this particular publication is representative of a "paranoid style" and provides a case study for tracing operant terms in an ongoing "backlash movement."
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Steven R. Goldzwig (1991) studied this question.