QAnon has revived fears from the Satanic Panic of the 1980s, borrowing from its playbook and deploying similar folk devils.

Evidence

QAnon Revives America’s ‘Satanic Panic’ (NPR)

Categorization

• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim
• XREF: connects to: Folktales can escalate into moral panics in troubled times. — Lynley Hood, A City Possessed, 77; The 1980s Satanic Panic resembled Pizzagate as a paranoid revival — Anna Merlan, Republic of Lies, 276

Related

• QAnon uses conspiracy theories about child sex traffickers to unleash a modern-day moral panic. (similarity 0.82)
• The Satanic panic was a moral panic of over 12,000 unsubstantiated cases of Satanic ritual abuse, starting in the 1980s and persisting today. (similarity 0.80)
• Fears of satanic worship spread across the United States in the 1980s, fueled by public accusations against heavy metal albums, Dungeons & Dragons, and day care workers. (similarity 0.79)