KRUGMAN: QAnon Is Trump's Last, Best Chance

[kpete]

This week’s Republican National Convention, by contrast [to the Democrats’], however positive its official theme, is going to be QAnon all the way.

.............it’s safe to predict that the next few days will be filled with QAnon-type warnings about terrible events that aren’t actually happening and evil conspiracies that don’t actually exist.

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What he and they can do, however, is conjure up imaginary threats that play into his supporters’ prejudices, coupled with conspiracy theories that resonate with their fear and envy of know-it-all “elites.” QAnon is only the most ludicrous example of this genre, all of which portrays Trump as the hero defending us from invisible evil.

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If all of this sounds crazy, that’s because it is. And it’s almost certainly not a political tactic that can win over a majority of American voters. It might, however, scare enough people that, combined with vote suppression and the unrepresentative nature of the Electoral College, Trump can manage, barely, to hang on to power.

I don’t think this desperate strategy is going to work. But it’s all Trump has left. The only thing he can hope for is fear itself — nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror based on nothing real at all.

via:
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/8/25/1972139/-Krugman-The-Only-Thing-Trump-Has-is-Fear-Itself?utm_campaign=recent

[Blue Owl]

1. Desperado Donny

Desperado, why don't you come to your senses,
You've been out buildin' fences for so long now,
Oh, you're a soft one,
I know that you've got your reasons,
These things that are pleasin' you,
Can hurt you somehow...

[dalton99a]

2. The cult is not fact-based.

[abqtommy]

3. If you look up "cult" in the dictonary you'll find a list of religious and political groups...

[not_the_one]

4. QAnon is the new "tea party".

Are they being propped up by the same "astroturf" billionaires?

Or is it Putin's doing? (and his bots)

Or both?

[Klaralven]

6. It's possible that it is self-sustaining, funded by social media advertising revenues.

[OAITW r.2.0]

5. Isn't QAnon the 2020 version of the teaparty?

I don't see any difference.

[Merlot]

7. republicans have been running on the fear platform for decades.

This is their playbook on steroids.