https://www.heraldscotland.com/news/17301373.future-shock-president-trump-truly-is-a-genius-if-hes-behind-the-mysterious-qanon-cult-thats-radicalising-americans/
Over the past few months, Q’s ‘Storm’ has become a hurricane as visible as Jupiter’s great red spot – spreading virally through the internet’s bowels and arriving at the central nervous system of Reddit, YouTube, Facebook and Twitter. Q’s postings are now very much mainstream, evangelising an immense army of devout followers.
And despite Trump’s inner circle being picked off one-by-one like teens on Elm Street, these QAnon believers still see a President on top of his game, a genius ready to take full command of this inconsequential wee rock spinning eternally around a nuclear furnace somewhere in the backwaters of infinity.
Mibbie he is a genius. Who can’t marvel at how Trump subverted his perceived moronity to a winning advantage last week, deliberately misspelling ‘Smocking Gun’ twice on a Tweet. Look at what became the lead news story that day – it certainly wasn’t the lurid revelations of the Mueller investigation.
And the result of the President painting himself as a clown? He remains the President, one who quite consciously amplifies his most lurid and grotesque characteristics. He hides in plain sight. And it’s in this febrile climate of reality distortion and mass distrust that the QAnon phenomenon thrives.