What QAnon and the Trump coup conspiracy theories have in common (notwithstanding everything that they don’t) -- (edited)
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znufrii
Dec 24 '20, 06:06
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“ I would never say the two scenarios were similar in their premises or their reasoning. But they had one thing in common: they were both animated by the fantasy of being done with democracy. The Storm and the Trump coup both imagined worlds in which their audiences would have to stop trying to win over their political opponents.... Like QAnon, a Trump putsch held out the possibility of a righteous cleansing of Republican extremists that would reduce the hard problems of representative governance to the comparatively simple logistics of civil war.”
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