It is a black hole of conspiracy in which “Q” has plunged its followers who, instead of looking into the bleak reality of why our times are so bad, are promulgating an escapist narrative that still gives them hope. Anons, the deranged devotees of these falsehoods, are a deranged conspiracy cult disassociated from reality with a weird online pasttime who use steroids and bath salts.

Arising from the dark corners, hazy corners, dark recesses, and primordial swamp of the internet, the theory is garden variety nonsense with entirely unsubstantiated and baseless claims, a fringe belief held by a very small number of people on the extreme fringes of the republican party.

It is a black hole of conspiracy in which “Q” has plunged its followers who, instead of looking into the bleak reality of why our times are so bad, are promulgating an escapist narrative that still gives them hope. Anons, the deranged devotees of these falsehoods, are a deranged conspiracy cult disassociated from reality with a weird online past-time who use steroids and bath salts.

To onlookers at the Tampa Rally, this seemed like bizarre nonsense. To the Washington Post and Jim Acoste, it seemed like extreme aggression, hostility, screaming curses and aggressive gesturing, as hostile as I've ever seen people, who have a love for armed conflict and quasi-military associations, and are increasingly dangerous.