I have some quibbles with the @jacobinmag’s piece on QAnon for various and sundry reasons but I think this is accurate — QAnon is a statement of faith, unmoored from reality but centered in an idea of heroism and righteousness. jacobinmag.com/2021/01/q-anon… 
My biggest objection is the piece’s conceit that the solution is political:
People do not succumb to conspiracy theories (or extremism, for that matter) for reasons that can be answered by politics.
Socialism would not make bad things not happen. Conspiracy theories are efforts to create order out of abject chaos, and you can’t de-chaos existence.
I understand the drive to frame this conspiracy theory through a solution you already favor — but QAnon isn’t a political problem, and there is no real political solution.
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