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[quote=Anonymous][quote=jsteele]Thanks for mentioning my blog post. I am not sure this perfectly addresses what you are asking, but I highly recommend Will Sommers book, "Trust the Plan". He traces the rise of QAnon from its historic precedences to gaining a hold in the mainstream Republican Party. You'll see how postings on 4Chan led to a belief that Democratic leaders were sexually abusing children and harvesting their organs in the basement of Comet Pizza and then to widespread participation in the January 6 insurrection. Trump routinely promotes QAnon messaging on Truth Social. I think much of the fixation on "grooming" by Democrats and anti-trans and anti-drag queen efforts are directly attributable to the spread of QAnon. We are facing the bulk of one of our two major political parties basing much of its ideology on ideas that are completely divorced from reality.

That's not to say that Democrats don't have their own problems with reality, but that hasn't taken over the party as it has with Republicans.
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Thanks for the recommendation, I'll check the book out. QAnon is definitely one very specific example of the phenomenon I'm talking about. I definitely will say that the majority of my more vocal left-of-center friends generally assign pretty nefarious divorced-from-reality motives to anyone on the right, and that predates the rise of Trump. I agree there may not be equality of the issue and how it manifests itself on either side of the aisle, but I also don't want to overindex on just the last few years as I see this as a multi-decade trend wrt polarization.[/quote]

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