Trump's Embrace of QAnon Is a Desperate Act

Sep 21, 2022 View Original Article
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"Trump is at or near rock bottom."
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0% Conservative
"About the author: Juliette Kayyem, a former assistant secretary for homeland security under President Barack Obama, is the faculty chair of the homeland-security program at Harvard's Keedy School of Government."
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-4% Liberal
"Without Q, what is Trump's next move to fill stadiums?"
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-4% Liberal
"For a man who believes in nothing, has no coherent ideology or value system except his own continuing relevance, obsesses over conspiracies, and subsists on grievance and anger, Donald Trump took a long time to fully embrace QAnon."
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-6% Liberal
"This past weekend, at a rally in Ohio, Trump played music that mirrored a QAnon anthem, apparently prompting the crowd to respond with a Nazi-like salute."
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-8% Liberal
"But lately, that courtship has turned into a consummated marriage, as Trump incorporated QAnon tropes into an Ohio rally and started spreading them on his social-media service."
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-12% Liberal
"Trump doesn't believe in QAnon any more than he believes in much of anything."
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-12% Liberal
"Nevertheless, early last week, on his social-media platform, Truth Social, Trump posted a picture of himself with a QAnon lapel pin and the slogan The Storm is Coming -- words that describe the destruction of his enemies and perhaps even the live televising of their execution."
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-16% Liberal
"The Atlantic's Tom Nichols argues that Trump is finding a new pool of recruits and adds, I didn't think American politics could get much darker, but here we are."
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-16% Liberal
"Trump didn't invent Q and he doesn't control it, the digital-misinformation researcher Joan Donovan, a co-author of the book Meme Wars: The Untold Story of the Online Battles Upending Democracy in America, told me via direct message."
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-16% Liberal
"For some time, the former president has been flirting with the cult -- which believes, among other preposterous things, that Democrats are part of a global child-sex-trafficking ring that Trump will ultimately defeat."
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-20% Liberal
"This has understandably provoked a lot of hand-wringing from Democrats and disillusioned former Republicans, who rightly fear that Trump will incite QAnon supporters to violence."
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-26% Liberal
"The world has moved on since November 2020, but Trump has not."
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-26% Liberal
"And I do not want to minimize the danger inherent in Trump's adoption of QAnon."
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-28% Liberal
"Trump, who had previously maintained at least a little distance from QAnon, is only signing on now because he's flailing."
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-30% Liberal
"Trump is caught in a double bindTrump and many of his aides face major legal problems."
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-30% Liberal
"The challenge Trump will have with QAnon is that it is a rabbit hole of weirdness whose weirdness caot easily be masked."
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-36% Liberal

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