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I think its a little more nebulous than you're making it out to be. I think there are a of factions within the conspiracy MAGAs with different degrees of dedication. Some of them are just entertaining the idea because they like calling Democrats pedophiles, while others are QAnon true-believers that have been investing in this for the better part if a decade. I'm not sure what percentage of MAGA are true-believers, but they are his most loyal followers, and I do believe he might lose them if he can't find a way to keep feeding them breadcrumbs. Plenty of MAGAs won't give a shit, but I think they're also more fickle and more likely to abandon him over something like his tariff policy fucking up their 401K.
This is just my gut feeling as someone who's been following the Q movement fairly closely since the pandemic. I could be wrong, and we'll see how it shakes out.
Maybe, I highly doubt it though. He'll just blame that on Joe Biden and the smooth brains will claim it makes sense.
Out of curiosity, why would you follow the Q movement? Like, it's clearly based on horseshit. Flat Earth theory seems almost reasonable by comparison. Seems like a giant waste of time to me.
I've always found conspiracy theories and cults interesting, and I had started hearing more about Q during lock down (I think it was the mole-children under Central Park story that caught my attention). I found a podcast called QAnon Anonymous that I started following because it was funny and informative. Over time, I started gaining a better understanding of MAGA and the right-wing ecosystem by following them. Then, in the lead up to the 2020 election, it started becoming less funny and more newsworthy, and now it just seems important towards understanding how we ended up with a fascist government.
I just looked the "Mole Children" thing up and it's almost as stupid as it sounds like. I guess it says something about the quality of their conspiracies when I was expecting actual half mole half human hybrids.
How do these Q idiots reconcile the fact that neither Fox News or Donald Trump has said a peep about the story? You and I both know that if he had led a rescue of 35k abused children he would NEVER shut the fuck up about it. Yet he never brought it up even in his rallies where people unaffiliated with the news could have recorded him saying it.
Well, like I said, it was easier when Q was active and there were a bunch of influencers crafting a narrative. If I remember right, the public Trump was mostly an act, while behind the scenes he was a more solemn man working with, "white hats," to free children. That's where all those memes about Trump's, "sacrifice," come from.