"For Shits and Giggles" > Does Jeff Sharlet need to say none of this is true? . . But the delusion is every bit as dangerous as if it were.

Pardon the pairing of two opposing emotions, but let's get into it for November 2020 >

From the Magazine Vanity Fair

November 2020 Issue

How QAnon Crept Into the Mind of Donald Trump and Turned Conspiracy Into Reality

The wild and impossible theories that fuel QAnon are as dangerous as if they are real.

By Jeff Starlet October 14, 2020

Let's get into it all with some snippets taken from a far longer and detailed story the author writes about someone he names Evelyn:

 

 

". . .There are no turning points when the world is spinning out of control, so the Trump interview with Fox News’ Laura Ingraham that aired August 31—displaced by the time you read this by a dozen more distractions and disasters—did not so much mark a new low as erase altogether the meaning of pre-Trump terms such as “new low.” Now there is only the abyss. We’re all in it together, and Trump is down here too. Which is why it’s worth pausing, as we rush toward November and the certain violence that will follow any outcome, to consider Trump’s words to Ingraham . . .

But something different is happening with Ingraham. He’s not insinuating that she knows whom he’s talking about—he’s insisting she doesn’t. It’s none of the usual suspects. Nobody and everybody, nameless and everywhere. When he glances away it’s as if only he can see them, an intimate moment not between Trump and Ingraham, but between Trump and his own mind. We’re witnessing a man cross a line. . .

Trump used to flirt with and feed morsels to evangelicalism’s spiritual warriors and the rabbit-holers of Q. That’s when they were distinct constituencies, the Christians and the crazies. Lately they’ve been merging, the theology of Q infecting evangelicalism, the organization of the Christian right incarnating Q’s digital power. Together they’re his base; his hope; and now, maybe, his identity. He’s no longer a con artist. Now he’s his own mark, like an email scammer who clicks on his own malware. He isn’t selling a dream, he’s dreaming it. The difference between him and his believers is that he has the power to make the dream real, for them, for him, for us. To summon into being the “American carnage” he nightmared at his inauguration, the cities he said were desolate now set ablaze; the killers in the street recast as heroes, with paramilitary backup; fear a daily given; the plague risen up from legend to fill the land with ghosts. This was his dream. Now we are all nightmaring it together. . . "

If you LOVE TRUMP, you’re receiving THE SIGNAL. If you FEAR HIM, fear he’ll never really BE GONE, you’re hearing it too.

Source: https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2020/10/how-qanon-crept-into-the-mind-of-donald-trump

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