QAnon is just the latest in a long line of weird Satanic conspiracies

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When QAnon first came on the scene in the fall of 2017, it seemed like just another fringe belief hatched in the recesses of the internet swamp. After all, an anonymous individual on a message board notorious for nuttery claimed to have inside information about Donald Trump’s battle with sinister liberal forces.

Yet QAnon took off to such an extent that it’s now been mainstreamed by the Republican party. According to a survey from last fall, a third of Republicans believe that QAnon is mostly true, and nearly another quarter believes it’s at least somewhat true.

Related: QAnon believers think Bill & Melinda Gates are getting divorced because she’s secretly a man

This, in spite of the fact that the QAnon theory includes such far-fetched beliefs that John F. Kennedy Jr. is still alive, Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama are leading a pedophile ring and German Chancellor Angela Merkel is Hitler’s granddaughter. Then there is the long string of promised round-ups of evil liberals that never materialized on the dates promised.

Needless to say, LGBTQ people are among those targeted by the QAnon cult. A Miami drag club was the subject of death threats after a failed Congressional candidate said it was abusing children, a lie amplified by Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene. QAnon’s emphasis on pedophilia also plays into long-standing slanders against LGBTQ people as sexual predators. 

Yet for all its focus on Trump and current events, QAnon is really the most recent in a string of conspiracy theories that depend upon one central character: Satan.

In QAnon’s cracked universe,  multiple Democrats, Hollywood figures and world leaders are…

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