QAnon believes *people in power they don't like* are engaged in sex trafficking. When people in power they like are caught engaging in it or similar things, they come up with convoluted explanations about how he went undercover to stop it, got framed by the real perpetrators, etc
https://twitter.com/BradMossEsq/status/1377302456967655424
QAnon diverged from Pizzagate & other antecedent conspiracy theories about secret cabals of powerful pedophiles by making up saviors—in particular Donald Trump—who were supposedly fighting it from the inside.
To maintain the theory, anything bad those saviors do must be dismissed
To maintain the theory, anything bad those saviors do must be dismissed
Despite its many strands, QAnon has a core of political/cultural tribalism and Trump fan fiction.
If there's a good "us" fighting an evil "them," no evidence of malfeasance by a prominent member of "us" can convince believers, because it would lead them to question core beliefs.
If there's a good "us" fighting an evil "them," no evidence of malfeasance by a prominent member of "us" can convince believers, because it would lead them to question core beliefs.
Nothing can sum up QAnon entirely. But if you start from the premise that Donald Trump is not just a good person who was a good president, but a cosmic hero standing against the evilest evil, and contort reality around that bedrock fiction, you understand a big part of it.
The victims in QAnon's main theory are children and babies.
Matt Gaetz is not only a Trumpist, which makes him part of QAnon's good "us," but also the sex crimes he's accused of involve a 17-year-old. That doesn't really fit QAnon's child trafficking conspiracy theories.
Matt Gaetz is not only a Trumpist, which makes him part of QAnon's good "us," but also the sex crimes he's accused of involve a 17-year-old. That doesn't really fit QAnon's child trafficking conspiracy theories.
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