Biff_Poindexter
Diamond Member
Think QAnon Is on the Fringe? So Was the Tea Party (Published 2020)
Followers of the pro-Trump conspiracy movement are winning elections and worrying moderate Republicans. Sound familiar?
www.nytimes.com
"Democrats dismissed it as a fringe group of conspiracy-minded zealots. Moderate Republicans fretted over its potential to hurt their party’s image, while more conservative lawmakers carefully sought to harness its grassroots energy -- Then, to everyone’s surprise, its supporters started winning elections. "
Just like after the disaster that was called the Bush administration, there was a serious re-branding effort launched -- and former Bush supporters, now ashamed to be known as such; started putting on funny little hats and called themselves independents...that movement (with Michelle Bachman at the controls) has since went extinct...
Now QAnon is the new fringe constituency within the Republican party that seeks to be the new "John Birch Society/Tea Party" and usher in their own assortment of batshit crazy candidates...and they are far more extreme than the Tea Party could imagine...instead of wanting to repeal Obamacare or voting out Democrat candidates, QAnon followers really don't have a coherent policy agenda aside from wanting to execute Democrats in the public square...
Now with Majorie Green in the Congress, we finally get to prove that 9/11 was an inside job -- and with more QAnon candidates in power -- maybe that will pressure Trump to really investigate Pizza Gate -- and maybe, just maybe, we can finally see the video footage of George Soros, Beyonce, Willie Nelson [and that kid who played Webster] drinking the blood of innocent children they slaughtered...