The future of QAnon, explained by 8 experts

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The future of QAnon, explained by 8 experts
QAnon’s prophecies failed to come true. Here’s why the conspiracy theory will persist anyway.
vox.com
6:50 AM · Feb 24, 2021

https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/22252171/qanon-donald-trump-conspiracy-theories

If you’re a hardcore QAnon believer, you had high hopes for January.

Among other things, you expected Donald Trump to remain president. You expected mass arrests and public executions. You expected an underground cabal of child-trafficking Democrats to finally be captured.

None of those things happened.

Instead, Joe Biden was sworn in as the 46th president of the United States. So if you’re one of those people — perhaps millions — who were deeply invested in the various QAnon conspiracy theories, the past few weeks likely produced an immense amount of dissonance.

But for the most die-hard QAnon followers, hope springs eternal! The next big prophecy is supposed to unfold on March 4, which had been Inauguration Day before the ratification of the 20th Amendment in 1933 — and the day Trump will gloriously return to power and retake the White House, according to the febrile imaginings of the QAnon movement.

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1. Q'ers predicting the resurrection of Trump are like fundamentalist prophets predicting the end...

...the world. The more often they're wrong, the more certain they are of their next "prophecy."

[RAB910]

2. I think this headline took a very loose definition of the word "expert"

I was disappointed as the article seemed to just call every media person an "expert". There was one person who had some expertise by education and occupation but their comments were hardly revelations

[Takket]

3. Conspiracy theories thrive by being proven wrong

That seems like a paradox but the reality is, being proven wrong just shows that there is a deeper conspiracy that just hasn’t come to light yet.