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New Q hit piece
https://twitter.com/harveyjkaye/status/1283369255304679431
Harvey J Kaye
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The Dark Obsessions of QAnon Are Merging With Mainstream Conservatism
The Dark Obsessions of QAnonAre Merging With Mainstream Conservatism
With Republican candidates and Trump embracing the strange, child trafficking–obsessed movement, it can no longer be dismissed as merely a conspiracy theory.
newrepublic.com
7:54 AM · Jul 15, 2020·Twitter for iPad
The online furniture sellerWayfair is not engaged in child sex trafficking. The high prices of some of its industrial-grade cabinets do not mean that they conceal children. And yet these absurd, evidence-free claims circulated so widely online that on Monday, Reuters the new Snopes published an extensive fact-check to disprove them, and Wayfair temporarily removed some products from its site to add more details to their descriptions. The wild allegations of a massive child sex abuse ring hidden in public can be directly traced to QAnon, sometimes called the “Great Awakening,” which was once dismissed as a conspiracy theory birthed from toxic message boards but is now closer to a genuine movement.
At this stage in its lifespan, QAnon can take an obscure post alleging absurd crimes to a social media trend, heard and shared by many people who have never heard of the movement. QAnon can no longer be shrugged off as a phenomenon confined to the internet, not with dozens of Republican congressional candidates embracing at least some of QAnon’s themes and President Trump attempting to marshal its power to help keep him in the White House. As the host of one streaming QAnon program put it to Trump campaign official Erin Perrine when she went on his show in October 2019, many QAnon adherents view themselves as the campaign’s “soldiers on the ground.”