The hope that Trump will assume his second term in office today stems from the fact that March 4 was the official date of the presidential inauguration before 1933. It was just another lie.
The most loyal supporters of the QAnon conspiracy theory were convinced that Donald Trump would be sworn in as president for a second term next Thursday, March 4. As confident as they were in January when they thought he would stay in power and begin a purge in the political sphere against the alleged underground network of Democrats who, according to conspiracies they religiously read, trade children and drink baby blood. Every accusation is crazier than the last in this web woven with lies.
The hope that Trump will assume his second term in office today is due to the fact that March 4 was the official date of the presidential inauguration before 1933. Then the 20th amendment to the constitution changed it to January 20 to change the period of ‘inactivity’ from the outgoing presidents.
It was clear that the Republican was not going to take power today. The United States was not going to be a failed state with two governments. But the spread of this lie, which warned security forces on Capitol Hill where they didn’t want to repeat what happened in January, shows it would be a big mistake to think that without Trump in the White House, conspiracy theories like QAnon would have been missing. .
The proof of this is that those who promoted the theory of this variable possession started an additional conspiracy theory to refute the former, as they believed that if the day ended without what was promised, Trump’s followers would again be disappointed and could not. cease. with another disappointment. Conspiracy after conspiracy. Lies to hide other lies. But above all, a constant threat to security. The Pentagon ordered the nearly 5,000 National Guard soldiers who remain in Washington DC to stay alert in the capital for any suspicious movement.
So QAnon users pointed out that this idea of ownership on March 4, which the screenshots show they made themselves, was orchestrated by the “allied deep state media” to mock their entire movement and make it seem silly. A kind of “false flag”.
“As long as there are people who cling to that alternate reality, QAnon will continue to exist in one form or another,” Sarah Hightoer, an independent researcher and expert on conspiracy movements, warned the BBC.
What future has us in politics with an actor as dangerous as ‘Q’?
QAnon will not disappear because of its religious overtones. Each failed prediction is followed by a new one that promises to be the real one and will fail again. This works on the same level as those who preach the parousia, the so-called “second coming of Christ to the earth.” Many have tried to set the date and failed one after another.
In fact, it should be noted that the ‘Q’ movement has embraced details of the religion narrative, such as the idea of a ‘final judgment’. Following Joe Biden’s inauguration in January, QAnon supporters spoke of a “great awakening” that marked not Trump’s end, but his beginning.
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On the other hand, it must be understood that there is no satisfactory answer to face the conspiracy movement, as Charlie Warzel of The New York Times points out in a recent interview with Vox. By cornering these conspirators in their own space and driving them off other networks like Twitter, their role as “persecuted” has been reinforced, further fueling the discourse of those who want to take advantage of them.
QAnon’s presence in the political sphere, with figures broadcasting his speeches to the masses in the belief that they are harmless games, is alarming as the believers who are constantly disappointed are easy prey for the even more extreme movements seeking to recruit them for their ranks.
We have already denounced anti-Semitic and racist extremist groups that are pushing for a “second race-based civil war in America.” While “Q” has negatively disrupted America’s democratic and electoral process, the real threat of the radicalization of these vulnerable and inattentive supporters has yet to unfold.
“My main concern about this move is that it’s going from Q to JQ,” Brian Friedberg, a researcher at the Harvard Shorenstein Center, told The Guardian. By this he meant the ‘Jewish question’ and the anti-Semitic positions with which the supporters of ‘Q’ could gradually radicalise.
Ideally, the party that welcomed ‘Q’ into its ranks in order to get votes should remove from its political platform those promoting the conspiracy and defending the lies. But instead, as showed at the Conservative Conference last Sunday, he promoted them.
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