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The storm is upon us : how QAnon became a movement, cult, and conspiracy theory of everything / Mike Rothschild.
A journalist who specializes in conspiracy theories draws on interviews with QAnon converts and victims, as well as psychologists, sociologists, and academics to explain the origin and growth of the movement, its embrace by right-wing media and politicians, and why it is important to understand it rather than mock it.
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- ISBN: 9781612199290 (hardcover)
- Physical Description: xviii, 301 pages ; 24 cm
- Publisher: Brooklyn : Melville House, [2021]
- Copyright: ©2021
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| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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A journalist who specializes in conspiracy theories draws on interviews with QAnon converts and victims, as well as psychologists, sociologists, and academics to explain the origin and growth of the movement, its embrace by right-wing media and politicians, and why it is important to understand it rather than mock it. - Random House, Inc.
"I hope everyone reads this book. It has become such a crucial thing for all of us to understand." âErin Burnett, CNN
"An ideal tour guide for your journey into the depths of the rabbit hole that is QAnon. It even shows you a glimmer of light at the exit." âCullen Hoback, director of HBO's Q: Into the Storm
Its messaging can seem cryptic, even nonsensical, yet for tens of thousands of people, it explains everything:Â What is QAnon, where did it come from, and is the Capitol insurgency a sign of where itâs going next?
On October 5th, 2017, President Trump made a cryptic remark in the State Dining Room at a gathering of military officials. He said it felt like âthe calm before the stormââthen refused to elaborate as puzzled journalists asked him to explain. Â But on the infamous message boards of 4chan, a mysterious poster going by âQ Clearance Patriot,â who claimed to be in âmilitary intelligence,â began the elaboration on their own.
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In the days that followed, Qâs wild yarn explaining Trump's remarks began to rival the sinister intricacies of a Tom Clancy novel, while satisfying the deepest desires of MAGA-America. Â But did any of what Q predicted come to pass? No. Did that stop people from clinging to every word they were reading, expanding its mythology, and promoting it wider and wider? No.
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Why not? Who were these rapt listeners? How do they reconcile their worldview with the America they see around them? Why do their numbers keep growing? Mike Rothschild, a journalist specializing in conspiracy theories, has been collecting their stories for years, and through interviews with QAnon converts, apostates, and victims, as well as psychologists, sociologists, and academics, he is uniquely equipped to explain the movement and its followers.
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In The Storm Is Upon Us, he takes readers from the background conspiracies and cults that fed the Q phenomenon, to its embrace by right-wing media and Donald Trump, through the rending of families as loved ones became addicted to Qâs increasingly violent rhetoric, to the storming of the Capitol, and on.
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And as the phenomenon shows no sign of calming despite Trumpâs loss of the presidencyâwith everyone from Baby Boomers to Millennial moms proving susceptible to its messagingâand politicians starting to openly espouse its ideology, Rothschild makes a compelling case that mocking the seeming madness of QAnon will get us nowhere. Rather, his impassioned reportage makes clear it's time to figure out what QAnon really is â because QAnon and its relentlessly dark theory of everything isnât done yet.
