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In reply to the discussion: The Q melt down begins... [View all]matt819
(10,749 posts)These are two people. They are still ripe for exploitation. They were looking for an authoritarian leader, and one may yet come along. Or "Q" will take the approach of those apocalyptic cults when the world doesn't end - they recalculate and redouble their commitment.
So we are most definitely not out of the woods, especially when they have demagogues like Cruz and Hawley and traitors like Bannon, Stone, and the Flynn brothers to regroup.
That said, if these two people can be the vanguard of the deprogramming effort, that's another thing. If they can somehow convert one or more of their email list and then get them to do the same, maybe we have some hope. But the hardcore oathkeepers, three percenters, retired (or active) police and service members are still with us. And I can only hope that the Justice Department will redouble its efforts to break these groups the way they attacked organized crime. And that the ones they arrested can move them up the food chain, including to people infiltrated into local, state, and federal law enforcement agencies.