The once-vocal group and its worldview have largely been folded into the broader Republican Party.
As the 2020 election approached, then-President Donald Trump had two problematic groups of supporters that he didn’t want to alienate. One was, an extremist group that had already earned a reputation for engaging in violence against opponents. The other was more loosely knit: adherents of the QAnon movement., a weekly dive into the data behind the news. Each Saturday, national columnist Philip Bump makes and breaks down charts explaining the latest in economics, pop culture, politics and more.
“QAnon played a huge role in Jan. 6,” Sommer said. He noted that Ashli Babbitt, the woman killed by a law enforcement officer as she climbed through a window at the Capitol, embraced the movement. So did scores of others arrested for their involvement in the riot. If the Oath Keepers and Proud Boys aimed to be the spark for the unrest that began that day, Sommer explained, QAnon adherents served effectively as the gasoline.
“QAnon and these conspiratorial beliefs and a lot of the ideas that were at the core of it … that has become more mainstreamed in the Republican Party,” Sommer explained. “It's not that the Republican Party rejected QAnon, but that QAnon sort of assimilated into the GOP.”when I spoke to him in 2017, “the permission that having a conspiracy-theorist-in-chief offers suggests that can be much more explicit than it previously was.
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