1. Trump's refusal to disavow QAnon on Friday, along with his constant nod-and-wink to QAnon, & the embrace he & other party leaders have given to Marjorie Taylor Greene, and the large number of QAnon candidates are all signs that QAnon is the GOP future.
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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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Aren't Birchers the obvious comparison?
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it's a brand new exclusive marketing demographic that will be hung upside down and shaken for all its coins for years to come. and it will also occasionally be manipulated into stochastic terror.
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Seems realistic that it radicalizes millions of people the day Trump loses to do vigilante justice to avenge him.
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Spoiler: they believe or would believe all of those.
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Something something believe absurdities something something commit atrocities
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Aren't these basically the same people who used to dress up in tri-cornered hats?
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