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Tue Nov 10, 2020, 07:04 PM Nov 2020

QAnon Faces Post-Trump Identity Crisis [View all]

QAnon Faces Post-Trump Identity Crisis

November 10, 2020 at 2:39 pm EST By Taegan Goddard 118 Comments

https://politicalwire.com/2020/11/10/qanon-faces-post-trump-identity-crisis/

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“President Trump’s election loss and the week-long silence of ‘Q,’ the movement’s mysterious prophet, have wrenched some QAnon believers into a crisis of faith, with factions voicing unease about their future or rallying others to stay calm and ‘trust the plan.’ The uncertainty has been compounded by the abrupt public resignation, also last Tuesday, of Ron Watkins, the administrator of Q’s online sanctuary on the message board 8kun,” the Washington Post reports.

“Q has gone quiet before. But the abrupt lack of posts since last Tuesday — Election Day, which the anonymous figure had touted for months as a key moment of reckoning — has sparked speculation and alarm among the movement’s most ardent followers. Some QAnon proponents have begun to publicly grapple with reality and question whether the conspiracy theory is a hoax.”

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