It's fine, obviously, to look for some perspective and ask critically whether today's conspiratorial thinking is appreciably different from the past, but this doesn't hold up to even cursory analysis (beside that I think the attached graphic is bogus)
https://twitter.com/Yascha_Mounk/status/1359884168352653312
First, in Oct. 2020, Morning Consult found that 24% of polled adults thought Qanon somewhat accurate or very accurate. Among those who approve of Trump it was 42%, and among those who strongly approve it was 46% (28% say "very accurate")
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Second, it's obvious that Qanon had and has major purchase in the Republican mainstream, including lawmakers and including *the last president* who left office three weeks ago. It's an eliminationist ideology that elicited an actual mob attack on the government itself
Anyway, what Yascha is doing isn't really about perspective, it's about maintaining the pretense that it's the Leftist threat is worthy of his outsized attention
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