I've always described QAnon as a rabbithole full of rabbitholes, and that's still the best way I can think to explain it. It's a unified theory of batshittery in the worst possible way, and sucks in a diverse array of conspiracy theorists for that reason.https://twitter.com/EryqOuithaqueue/status/1295392237740855296 …
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It plays a major role in galvanizing MAGA cultists and explaining away his failed promises as crazy-like-a-fox deliberate feints and misdirects in service of the "storm" of mass political opposition imprisonment that's supposedly coming.
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The crux of its argument is, that storm is coming and it will be a magnificient moment where all his critics and political opposition end up behind bars, and his authoritarian power is solidified. In other words, a fascist coup.
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QAnon isn't new, but it's breaching the mainstream with increasing frequency in the lead up to the election. That isn't a coincidence. It is a fascist cult increasingly galvanizing a mass audience around support for a fascist coup.
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Don't sleep on it or miss its significance. Remember what I said about how fascists dress up fascism in the sheep's clothes of the ridiculous in hopes that it will seem to silly to be taken seriously? Well, I don't know how intentional it is, but that happens with QAnon.
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However ridiculous it may seem, QAnon is an increasingly mainstream movement that's essentially a cult thirsting very specifically for a Trumpian fascist coup. It's absolutely a component of Trump's strategy for retaining office.
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And before you shrug and say "lol he's not smart enough to have a strategy," let me remind you that learned intelligence is only one kind of intelligence. Trump's intelligence is cunning intelligence-- gut-driven manipulation of human nature.
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Yep. I've been saying something like this all along. Trump might be an idiot when it comes to conventional intelligence, but he has a grifter's animal cunning and gut-level understanding of manipulating the rubes that is not to be underestimated.
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