QAnon frames Trump as sole savior fighting a pedophile deep state

Evidence

Here is a summary. It begins with Pizzagate, the allegation that Hillary Clinton and her campaign chairman colluded in an international child sex ring centered in a Washington, DC, pizzeria. It then extends the Pizzagate plot by casting every president since Ronald Reagan as a participant in child sex trafficking. Every president, that is, except Trump—who alone is taking on a “worldwide ring of blackmailers” that includes these child sex traffickers, as well as liberal globalists and Jewish bankers. According to QAnon, the Mueller investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election is itself a ruse. Actually, according to QAnon, Trump and the special prosecutor are acting together to distract attention from their secret plan to shut down the ring, which has infiltrated the US government. The day of reckoning is approaching when Trump will declare open war on the conspiracy, assisted by John F. Kennedy Jr., who faked his death and will now return. Tens of thousands of arrests will be made and thousands of corporate CEOs will resign. Their covert rule will be ended, their secret power overturned, and Hillary Clinton will be locked up. “This is what draining the swamp looks like,” says one poster on the 8chan message board. QAnon is about a conspiracy to thwart a conspiracy. — Russell Muirhead and Nancy L. Rosenblum, A Lot of People Are Saying, 302

Categorization

• SHARE: The Kennedy-Jr-faked-his-death and betting-on-Trump-narrative detail is exactly the kind of thing a close reader of conspiracy studies would enjoy.
• XREF: Fragments of this prefigure Jan 6 discourse and the ‘great awakening’ the storm rhetoric later produced — worth cross-linking to works on apocalyptic politics. — connects to: The new conspiracism is uniquely and asymmetrically a right-wing phenomenon.