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“An alarming wave of Republican candidates who flirted with or openly embraced the QAnon conspiracy theory launched bids for Congress this year. But QAnon largely lost at the polls, with 26 of the 28 QAnon-backing Republicans (including three write-in candidates) facing defeat in the general election, many of them losing by 40% or 50% margins,” Huffington Post reported the morning after the election.
Big sigh of relief.
“The QAnon movement,” in case you somehow don’t already know, “pushes an unhinged conspiracy theory that Democratic powerbrokers, media bigwigs and Hollywood elites are engaged in child trafficking and drink a chemical harvested from the blood of children they imprison in satanic torture dungeons,” Huffington Post said. Read story here.
A conspiracy theory researcher says QAnon “preys on people with mental health issues.” The FBI considers QAnon “a potential domestic terrorism threat,” Huffington Post said. Need I add that all of these QAnon candidates are also ultra-far-right whackjobs who ran as Republicans? That’s right, not a single Democrat in that crazy mob.
Fortunately, only two of these nuts made it to Congress, although the way things are going in this country, one of them may be president someday.
As expected, QAnon whackjob Marjorie Taylor Greene (photo), who bootstrapped herself to wealth by inheriting her father’s construction company, won in a gerrymandered Georgia district by running unopposed “after her extremist followers terrified her opponent into dropping out of the race.” Huffington Post describes her as “a full-fledged far-right extremist” and “a racist, anti-Semite and Islamophobe linked to white supremacists and anti-government militias.” She posed for a campaign poster brandishing an assault rifle.