Was the Identity of Q Really Just Revealed? Here’s Everything We Know.
What the latest revelations about the pro-Trump conspiracy theory really tell us. By Aaron Mak Sept 25, 20201:14 PM Whether you call it a conspiracy theory or a collective delusion, QAnon now takes up a shocking amount of breathing room in national politics. Q shirts have proliferated at rallies across the country, and Q followers have made life on large chunks of social media unbearable. But the person or persons behind this movement—a supposed deep-state mole rallying Americans around Donald Trump as he battles a satanist Democratic cabal—has remained a surprising afterthought. Thanks to recent reporting from ABC News, Reply All, and others, however, there’s now more evidence backing one of the more compelling theories explaining who might be behind Q. It’s complicated—OK, not as complicated as the yarns Q spins for his followers—but here’s what you need to know. Remind me: What is QAnon? QAnon is a dizzying conspiracy theory positing that there is a vast network of satanic elites wi...