The hope of seeing Trump assume his second term today is due to the fact that March 4 was the official date for the presidential inauguration before 1933. It was one more lie.
The most loyal followers of the QAnon conspiracy theory were convinced that Donald Trump would be sworn in as president for a second term this Thursday, March 4th. As convinced as they were in January when they thought he would stay in power and begin a purge in the political sphere against the alleged clandestine network of Democrats who, according to conspiracies they read religiously, trafficking children and drinks baby blood. Each accusation is crazier than the last in this network woven with lies.
The hope of seeing Trump assume his second term today is due to the fact that March 4 was the official date of the presidential inauguration before 1933. He then changed Amendment 20 to the Constitution on January 20. to shorten the period of “inactivity” of outgoing presidents.
It was obvious that the Republican was not going to take power today. The United States would not become a failed state with two governments. But the spread of this lie, which alerted security forces to the Capitol where they did not want to repeat what happened in January, shows that it would be a big mistake to think that without Trump in the White House conspiracy theories like QAnon have disappeared.
Proof of this is that those who promoted the theory of this alternate possession mounted an extra conspiracy theory to disprove the former, as they held that when the day ended without what had been promised, Trump supporters they would feel disappointed again and might not endure one more disappointment. Conspiracy then conspiracy. Lies to cover up other lies. But above all a constant threat to security. The Pentagon ordered the nearly 5,000 National Guard soldiers remaining in Washington DC to remain in the capital alert of any suspicious movement.
Then QAnon users pointed out that this idea of possession on March 4, which the screenshots show they created themselves, was orchestrated by the “allied media of the deep state” to turn a whole mockery into a mockery. his movement and make him look silly. A kind of “false flag.”
“As long as there are people clinging to these alternative realities, QAnon will continue to exist in some way,” Sarah Hightoer, an independent researcher and expert on conspiracy movements, warned the BBC.
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QAnon will not disappear because of his religious connotations. Each failed prediction will be followed by a new one that promises to be the real one, and that will fail again. This operates on the same level as those who preach the parousia, the so-called “second coming of Christ to Earth.” Many have tried to pinpoint the date, and have failed one after another.
In fact, it should be noted that the ‘Q’ movement has adopted details of the narrative of religions as the idea of a ‘final judgment’. After Joe Biden’s inauguration in January, QAnon supporters spoke of a “big 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 confronting the conspiracy movement, as Charlie Warzel of The New York Times points out in a recent interview with Vox. Having cornered these conspirators in their own space, expelling them from other networks such as Twitter, has strengthened their role as “persecuted”, which further feeds the discourse of those seeking to take advantage of them.
QAnon’s presence in the political sphere, with figures spreading his speeches to the masses believing them to be innocent games, is alarming because those faithful who are constantly disappointed are easily taken by even more extremist movements that want to recruit them into their files.
We have already denounced anti-Semitic and racist extremist groups seeking a “second civil war based on race in the United States.” Although ‘Q’ has negatively burst into the American democratic and electoral process, the real threat, which is the radicalization of these vulnerable and unwary followers, has not yet developed.
“My main concern about this move is that it goes 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 ‘Q’ followers could gradually radicalize.
Ideally, the party that welcomed ‘Q’ into its ranks to get votes would expel those who promote the conspiracy and flag the lies from its political platform. But instead, as was evidenced last Sunday at the Conservative Conference, he has promoted them.
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