And Q makes it remarkably easy to do nothing while believing you’re doing a lot.

the antifa movement,

It is a movement premised on the idea that a “storm” of mass arrests and executions will sweep corruption, child molesters, and liberals out of government forever, so it should not have been so jarring a surprise when Q’s believers decided to carry out that long-promised purge themselves.

Studies have found that baby boomers are far more likely to share fake-news stories on Facebook, and it’s this same cohort with which QAnon has found pay dirt and a devoted audience.7

To put it simply—Democrats, Hollywood elite, business tycoons, wealthy liberals, the medical establishment, celebrities, and the mass media are the bad guys. They’re controlled by Barack Obama, who is secretly a Muslim sleeper agent; Hillary Clinton, a blood-drinking ghoul who murders everyone in her way; and Washington power broker, John Podesta,

But there is also a “conspiracy theory of everything” aspect to QAnon, which makes it a big tent welcoming to all those who question authority, distrust the media, and do their own research.

When asked by a White House press corps member to denounce Q, Trump evasively replied “I don’t know much about the movement other than I understand they like me very much, which I appreciate.”4

On the other side, if you were to ask journalists and debunkers who have covered QAnon with a skeptical eye since it emerged in 2017 what it is, they would tell you Q is a prosperity scam that managed to get a bunch of baby boomers on the hook with a mythology that blames everything wrong with society on Barack Obama and George Soros.

Eric Hoffer writes that if the doctrine of such a movement “is not unintelligible, it has to be vague; and if neither unintelligible nor vague, it has to be unverifiable.”4