James Wolfe, 45, no longer believes in the conspiracy theory QAnon. For a year, though, it dominated his life.
“The thing with QAnon is that Q is dropping these little breadcrumbs every day or every couple days,” said Wolfe. “It’s so easy to feel you’re special or in on something.”
QAnon, which has been called a collective delusion and a cult, is a baseless conspiracy theory about a secret cabal of liberal, Satan-worshipping elites who are running a child sex trafficking ring that President Trump will soon uncover. QAnon believers follow the anonymous online postings of “Q,” who claims to be a Trump insider with knowledge of the cabal and the president’s plans. And at QAnon’s core are some deeply anti-Semitic tropes, like the centuries-old idea of blood libel and the Protocols of the Elders of Zion.
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