Trump Endorsed QAnon Because He's Stuck

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"For a man who believes in nothing, has no coherent ideology or value system except his own continuing relevance, obsesses over conspiracies, and subsists on grievance and anger, Donald Trump took a long time to fully embrace QAnon."

My take @TheAtlantic

theatlantic.com
Trump Endorsed QAnon Because He’s Stuck
He’s grasping at straws, not solidifying his political base.
7:16 AM · Sep 21, 2022

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2022/09/trump-qanon-ohio-rally-music-conspiracy/671490/

No paywall
https://archive.ph/jCfwO

For a man who believes in nothing, has no coherent ideology or value system except his own continuing relevance, obsesses over conspiracies, and subsists on grievance and anger, Donald Trump took a long time to fully embrace QAnon. For some time, the former president has been flirting with the cult—which believes, among other preposterous things, that Democrats are part of a global child-sex-trafficking ring that Trump will ultimately defeat. But lately, that courtship has turned into a consummated marriage, as Trump incorporated QAnon tropes into an Ohio rally and started spreading them on his social-media service.

This has understandably provoked a lot of hand-wringing from Democrats and disillusioned former Republicans, who rightly fear that Trump will incite QAnon supporters to violence. But the outrage from respectable quarters matters far less to the former president than his own political plight. Trump, who had previously maintained at least a little distance from QAnon, is only signing on now because he’s flailing.

Trump and many of his aides face major legal problems. The January 6 hearings and revelations that he was holding classified documents at his residence in Mar-a-Lago have helped drive his favorability rating to its lowest point in a year and a half. Even if he manages to fire up some supporters by explicitly endorsing QAnon, he is likely to alienate many more Americans for whom the cult’s ideas seem creepy and off-putting.

Nevertheless, early last week, on his social-media platform, Truth Social, Trump posted a picture of himself with a QAnon lapel pin and the slogan “The Storm is Coming”—words that describe the destruction of his enemies and perhaps even the live televising of their execution. This past weekend, at a rally in Ohio, Trump played music that mirrored a QAnon anthem, apparently prompting the crowd to respond with a Nazi-like salute.

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[crud]

1. Flailing...

and/or he needs to bump up the donations from his most reliable revenue stream...
and/or he needs to pump up the adulation level to feed his ego.

[MiHale]

2. Today reading about all the troubles...

TFG has piled up the last couple months one quote from a movie resonates in my mind.

“They Shoot Horses, Don’t They?”

[SWBTATTReg]

3. And I just read somewhere that QAnon has suffered tremendous losses in membership numbers,

so his timing is screwed up as usual. Doesn't he ever do anything right?

Everywhere this scumbag runs, he won't be able to escape, or hide. The walls are closing in, and one day, one day, he'll finally pay for his numerous crimes.

[Blue Owl]

4. All he's got left is a few whackos

[sop]

5. Trump has allied himself with Putin, MbS, Nazis, the Klan, Proud Boys, Oath Keepers, white

nationalists and domestic terrorists of every description. QAnon isn't such a big leap.

[Hermit-The-Prog]

7. Add in the Fascist Oligarch eXtremists and the gangsters are all here.

[usonian]

6. Q is his first and last resort.

There is no doubt in my mind (for whatever that's worth or not worth) that this whole "Q" dumpster fire is aided and abetted, if not founded, by Russia.

Background:
“Democracy in Crisis: We’ve Been Headed Here for Decades.” Part 1of 8
https://m.dailykos.com/stories/2021/8/6/2044226/-America-2021-The-Good-the-Bad-the-Ugly
Read all 8 to get the "plan" in detail.
This is all a Russian plan. Started years ago.
https://pastebin.com/raw/evbnN5y7

The latter is mine. I just connect dots.

So, now, Q is his last resort in the shitstorm.


Now, you may ask, "Why have the rich, OUR oligarchs, gone along with this, knowing that civil war is bad for (most) business?" I think of the German companies who made out pretty well in a losing war, and parked their cash elsewhere. That is why the U.S. going after Russian Oligarchs is brilliant. Teach OUR oligarchs a lesson. They may come around (or just find a new führer). Russia's collapse would be welcome in that respect.