It helped that so many QAnon followers came from an environment inured, almost blasé, to prophetic failure: white evangelical conservatism. The movement developed an obsession with hidden symbols, with the placement of flags, and with the favorite obsession of apocalyptic forecasters for millennia, numerology. As one favorite line went, “This is a movie.” The real truth was occurring in the hidden world, one that Q followers could decipher for themselves. All that was only a facade, they believed. That’s why the movement intensified after the 2018 elections, which saw Trumpism get a thumping at the polls. (The details varied QAnon was a broad church.)
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Hillary Clinton and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi might seem to be free and happy, but they were already in prison, only making public appearances under watch and with an ankle bracelet.
Trump might seem to spend his time tweeting and playing golf, but he was actually ordering the military to rescue children from the mole people’s tunnels below New York City, that well-known den of iniquity. He was involved in a vast and secret war against the forces of ultimate evil, a world-spanning pedophile conspiracy that included every favorite target of the American conspiratorial imagination: the Clintons, Hollywood, and, of course, Jews, especially George Soros and the Rothschilds.
The QAnon conspiracy theory explained why the grand leader had produced so little of what he promised. Their lives remained unfulfilled, and their social status, if anything, lowered.
Hillary Clinton and other objects of hate remained free. And yet, compared to the grand promises, explicit and implicit, of the Trump campaign, nothing had happened. The Republicans held every branch of government. But QAnon started in October 2017, almost a year after Trump supporters had seen their man sweep to an unprecedented and unexpected victory. Many millenarian movements begin among those locked out of power. But it’s also not new to QAnon, a movement birthed from twin failures: that of Trump as president, and the repeated apocalyptic prophecies of American evangelicals since the presidency of Ronald Reagan. Christ, his followers said, had returned to the sanctuary-but in heaven, not on Earth, unknowable to ordinary believers save through faith. The conjuring of a hidden world is a longtime characteristic of prophetic movements seeking to explain their failures, such the Great Disappointment of 1844, when a preacher had proclaimed Jesus would return to Earth by that year. Trump will thus reappear and restore the true America that’s been concealed for over a century. The United States, this theory explains, was actually abolished in 1871, when the country was changed into a corporation controlled by the Bank of England. The most popular theory now circulating is that Wednesday’s inauguration was a sham or a pagan ritual, and that the true inauguration will occur on March 4-the original date in the Constitution, before it was changed to shorten the lame-duck period. Some adherents are suffering a crisis of faith- but others are renewing it. They had a prominent place among the mob that attacked the Capitol that day.īut after none of that happened, QAnon switched gears. Before that, QAnon supporters, like millions of other Republicans, had put their hopes on the election being overturned on Jan. Mitch McConnell who had supposedly betrayed Trump, leading to the announcement of President Donald Trump’s second term. For two weeks, the movement-now bereft of its anonymous leader and left to conjure up theories itself-had proposed that the inauguration would actually see the Space Force cut the satellite feed while secret military forces swept in to arrest Democrats and such Republicans as Mike Pence and Sen. presidential inauguration Wednesday, they were on the edge of their seats. As adherents of the conspiracy theory QAnon watched the U.S.
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