Q’s second life will be as a full-on religion: “We Are The Plan.” I would not underestimate its appeal.

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This presentation reminds me a lot of "Zeitgeist" viral video from 10-15 years ago. It offers a "gnostic" and "Manichaean" outlook. It gets some things right, which makes it even more insidious. The whole appeal is "awakening"—and thus redeeming the fallen world.
The key qualities to it are

+ a sinful, fallen world
+ absolute evil at the top levels of the political order
+ good, Christian patriots, who are victims and make up the resistance
+ revelation (in this case of hypocrisy and crimes)
=> redemption
I'm tempted to say that Trump is a savior figure in this new stage of Q ... but the video is remarkable in that he does not figure prominently in it. "We are the plan now." It's a Christian movement, for which Trump might be figured more like John the Baptist.
A very similar thing is happening with "woke"; indeed, there are remarkable similarities between the two movements. Both are, structurally speaking, (post) Christian—and thus will have tremendous appeal.
Both "Woke" and "Q" are coming at the end of age, much as Christianity emerged in the decline of the Roman Empire, and was eventually adopted by the failing state. Both are ways of making sense of the world, redeeming the past; and coping with a declining power.
In my childhood, we might have lived in a "secular age." We're now entering a hyper-religious one. This will be difficult to see because both new religions won't be part of traditional churches.

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