I would caution people from dismissing it as a too-crazy-to-matter fringe group.<p>Trump's rise was certainly boosted by his involvement in birtherism.<p>The Trump equivalent of 2024 or 2028 is probably tweeting about QAnon right now.
Interestingly enough liberals are more likely to know about QAnon than conservatives. I listen to both right wing and left wing podcasts+news and the times I hear about QAnon are on left wing ones. I'm not sure what to make of this.<p>Edit: genuinely curious why I'm being downvoted, I found this pretty interesting<p><a href="https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2020/03/30/qanons-conspiracy-theories-have-seeped-into-u-s-politics-but-most-dont-know-what-it-is/" rel="nofollow">https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2020/03/30/qanons-cons...</a>
Qanon is a funny thing to me. The actual things written by the person or people under “Q” are almost completely detached from what I see people share and post on social media.<p>But as someone who followed the spygate saga, Q seemed to know just enough inside baseball to make it interesting and keep me curious. I thought maybe some foreign intelligence op or something.<p>To give Qanon credit though, they were taking about Epstein for two years, when Epstein was still considered untouchable. Apparently their cohort isn’t so untouchable anymore.
I can’t tell what’s sloppier, the theories promulgated by supposed Q followers, or the debunkers.<p>Why is it so hard to find a thoughtful, technical, ripping to shreds of Q’s posts?