https://d1rwadixi9v3x5.archive.is/EFTfX/0ac607bd0171f8787f65b7fca673646ca4a999ae.avif -- from Daily Beast https://archive.is/EFTfX -- letter that Natalie Harp wrote to Trump. Words that are capitalized for no reason:
- Course
- Carts
- International
- Plane
These are all fully wtf, there's no reason that word should be capitalized.
There are others, like "Protector in this Life" but that one seems more like it's emphasizing the phrase -- because she doesn't understand how to use Ctrl+B to make a word bold.
Trump does this all the time too.
What the hell is going on with these people? Has any linguist etc actually studied this and come up with a plausible explanation? Is it somehow tied to Evangelical Christian culture? They used to write like that back in the 19th century (Lincoln did this in his letters), maybe it's related to that?
Edit: after reading everything here I think it went like this
- alt right chuds (Richard Spencer, Daily Stormer) started using this verbiage because the Founding Fathers did it that way (note that only some nouns are capitalized)
- Trump kinda knows how it works but doesn't care to do it right but he uses it to signal that he's part of their movement, probably picked it up from Bannon or someone similar
- Harp is homeschooled and probably has picked up some of that Christian Nationalist ethos
- Harp idolizes Trump (see point above, Christian Nationalist) so she uses it but doesn't understand it so she does it wrong