Here's What Happens to a Conspiracy-Driven Party
Here’s What Happens to a Conspiracy-Driven Party The modern GOP isn't the first party to embrace huge conspiracies. But the lessons should be sobering. Digital Public Library of America By ZACHARY KARABELL Link Copied Zachary Karabell is a contributing editor at Politico Magazine. The rise of QAnon beliefs in Republican politics has been treated with a degree of shock: How could a fringe Internet conspiracy theory have worked its way into the heart of a major political party? The ideas behind the QAnon movement are lurid, about pedophilia and Satan worship and a coming violent “storm,” ...