of the capitol riot. alex marquardt has details for us. reporter: this is an unclassified report from the fbi that was first obtained by our colleagues. what it says is some followers of the qanon conspiracy theory, the virtual cult, if you will, are threatening to become more than digital soldiers, as they call themselves. they ve become disenchanted with the lack of progress and the lack of delivery on the promises they feel have been made to them. essentially what they believe has not come true. one of the big ones was that president trump would take office again after the inauguration, that he would reassume the presidency back in march. of course, that didn t happen. we should remind our viewers at its core qanon followers believe this conspiracy theory is about global elites. a deep state they call it, who have organized a satanic international child sex
hand in hand. so look at this polling from the public religion institution showing many believe core qanon about pedophiles controlling in the so-called storm on the horizon. and lay on top of the trusted media sources of the folks who say they believe that stuff. if you truftd far right channels like oan or news max you believe that the pedophile sex trafficking cult craziness. now that block is pretty small. prri said it is 3% of americans. that is still a lot people inclined to believe the worse sickest smears. so let s talk about how this evolved. daniel ziblatt co-authors how democracies die. that book came out in 2018 and according to the washington post and the new yorker, it was
formative for now president biden. he recommended the book to other people and learned a lot from it. thank you for coming on the program. you could reflect on what you were hearing just a couple of minutes ago about the arizona and the so-called aud it and th belief in qanon theories, does it add up to something bigger in your view. the way that it dies today is at the ballot box. no longer through military coup and attacks by generals. so it is critical to have free and fair elections. and what we re seeing across u.s. states right now is an assault on voting rights. and so i think the biggest threat facing american democracy today is that 2020 may have been a dress rehearsal for what is coming in 2022 and 2024 and when people challenge the basic legitimacy of free and fair elections in pre careus elections. some may say nothing has