Check out this recent article I'm quoted in about the future of the QAnon movement. What is the future of this fringe, bizarre, far-right conspiracy movement come the next presidential election? I discuss what might happen to the movement in either the event of Donald Trump's victory or defeat. In either case, I, and several other commentators, don't see QAnon going anywhere any time soon. Perhaps the movement might transform into something new at some point, but it is sure to have more life and more fight left in it.
That's quite unfortunate because they make a case for the fear that our culture might be teetering on the precipice of a new dark age of ignorance. When you take these people together with the 9/11 Truth movement, the anti-vaxxers, the "crisis actor" theorists and the rest of a conspiracy culture, a rational person might start to panic and think humanity has taken leave of its senses.
From a political angle, I think that about 99% percent of those who are center-right, from conservatives to libertarians, look at the QAnon movement as an embarrassment. Trump's tacit endorsement of QAnon is especially galling to these people. Many have lamented the long passing of an age when the right was the home of William F. Buckley's high-toned intellectualism, and they're dreading the coming of a new age when conservatism's voice is being hijacked by loud, irrational, fantasy-prone rabble.
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Q is not going anywhere as long as elitist shitheads like you are around. Before you write anything else about Q, make sure and research what they’re really about so you know what your talking about and don’t make a stupid spectacle of your self.
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DeleteIt would behoove you to conduct some research of your own, research from sources other than QAnon-supporting social media, blogs, or whatever source is shaping its bizarre mythology of Satanic cults headquartered in pizza joints. You will find out that not one single claim made by this group has ever been verified by anyone.
How can somebody this ignorant be a teacher? Quit you job!!!!
ReplyDeleteDear Anonymous,
DeleteCan you specifically point out what I am ignorant about? As I would write on a student's paper, "please clarify. What you've written here is extremely vague."
Completely nails it! QAnon is a joke and embarrassment to every real conservative. If you support these people you’re making an ass of yourself and turning the Republican Party into a joke.
ReplyDeleteThat is unfortunately the case.
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