2. We haven't quite gotten a grip on what QAnon is. Analogies to Tea Party don't really get a grip on how outlandish Q narratives (about cannibalistic pedophile rings controlling bureaucracy & Dem party) are, nor the mythological purposes they serve.
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3. Structurally, QAnon rose as myths often do, as a way of reconciling cognitively distressing facts. QAnon allowed people who liked Trump's message & were disturbed by evidence of his sexual predations & corruption to conjure up a new Trump, a fighter of deep state pedophiles
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4. The two big inflection points of QAnon's growth were both Trump failures that needed to be excused: Mueller investigation in 2017 and Covid response in 2020: in both cases an alternative mythos was created to justify what was happening.
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5. Because of its mythological function to excuse Trumpian failure, I think a Trump defeat will only enhance the appeal of QAnon if he loses: it'll create a Lost Cause myth of how evil pedophiles robbed election & why they have to be fought. More here:https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/qanon-future-republican-party/ …
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Makes you wonder who will be President 8, 12, 16 years from now. The Buckley, Young Conservative, Brooks Brothers types doomed to irrelevance?
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Makes you wonder if there will be a President 8, 12, 16 years from now.
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QAnon -- here to make the Tea Party look sane and rational.
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It's insane, but remember the GOP base is constantly evolving into more insanity, they've long purged any moderates or Liberals in the party going back to the 1980s and exist now koolaid drinkers. They think Trump, clear friend of convicted pedophile Epstein is not a pedophile.
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They think Trump was actually 'undercover', a confidential informant, who was the one that brought Epstein down.
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