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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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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I hope you haven’t written an article about this because you’re overthinking it
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Disagree — the difference between something that metastasized organically, so to speak, and something that was the intentional (or unintentional) consequence of psy-ops. Did it happen by itself or did malign parties make it happen
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From a break from reality standpoint, this is only half a step away from 20-40 year old right wing conspiracies that Dems were lizard people trying to steal the world from humans.
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They were just dummies that got conned.
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QAnon myths may have purposes, but regardless of intention, by repositioning the more moderate, generally less harmful party as one that wants to do great harm (steal children, eat them etc), it is prepping the GOP populace to accept and cheer on a "mass cleansing" by the state.
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The whole Slender Man thing from a few years ago seems like a good parallel. Collective fiction that ran wild and lead to violence.
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The disturbance is because it stimulated disowned sadistic and cannibalistic feelings. "It is not I who desire this, it is THEM."
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