Estrella
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« on: August 13, 2020, 04:57:58 PM » |
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Greene won, what, 57% in the runoff? QAnon is already legitimate among the Republican base. It may be shocking to people in their metropolitan blue bubbles, but a movement like this being popular among people who believe in creationism, birtherism, 9/11 conspiracies, Democrats being socialists/communists/whatever, Pizzagate or anything that Fox News says isn't surprising in the slightest.
If Trump was just slightly less strategically stupid, I could actually imagine him being behind creating QAnon. But then the bastardized version of conservatism that dominates the GOP has already proven to be more than capable of creating insane* conspiracy theories on its own.
* And I mean this literally - these things are what you normally hear from someone with paranoid schizophrenia. Of course, 57% of GA-14 Republican primary voters aren't schizophrenic, which makes that result even more worrying.
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