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    1. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 17 Aug 2020

      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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    2. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 17 Aug 2020

      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. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 17 Aug 2020

      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. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 17 Aug 2020

      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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      Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 17 Aug 2020

      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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        2. David Larson‏ @denosral 17 Aug 2020
          Replying to @HeerJeet

          Horrifying as this is, it means the death of the GOP.

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        3. Bethankit Hums‏ @tangibullah 17 Aug 2020
          Replying to @denosral @HeerJeet

          Or does it mean the rise of QAnon as a political force in US politics?

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        1. Slim Goodbody‏ @slim_goodbody_ 17 Aug 2020
          Replying to @HeerJeet

          It's a new religious movement.

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        2. She-Huck‏ @TylerHuckabee 17 Aug 2020
          Replying to @HeerJeet

          Not a structural cause, but I have a theory that QAnon's recent growth was propelled by Trump Country wanting a Bizarro BLM to call their own.

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        3. Sharskee‏ @sharskee 17 Aug 2020
          Replying to @TylerHuckabee @HeerJeet

          The obsession with pedophilia is for sure a way to have a “righteous cause” that requires them to only be outraged and can be used as trump card to say “oh well you don’t care about this?”

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        2. Johnny Renton‏ @mrjohnnyrenton 17 Aug 2020
          Replying to @HeerJeet

          So what happens if the Dems win and then say “We agree with you Qanon. We are going through shedloads of money at the FBI and law enforcement to fight this”. Does that take away a keystone of Qanons raisin d’être, or do they double down on conspiracy and move to another cause?

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        3. Alex Dodwell‏ @driftmako 17 Aug 2020
          Replying to @mrjohnnyrenton @HeerJeet

          The purpose of QAnon is not to defeat deep state pedophiles. Its purpose, as mentioned, is to reconcile Trump the failure with Trump the icon. Nothing the democrats could or would do would satisfy that requirement.

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        1. TankBag‏ @TankBag 17 Aug 2020
          Replying to @HeerJeet

          When he loses in November, what will Trump call his grievance media project that’s been on hold since his surprise win in 2016?

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        2. Delaney‏ @djadelaney 17 Aug 2020
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          :(

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