Wonkette: What If You Had A Satanic Panic And 15 Percent Of America Came?

[Nevilledog]

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https://www.wonkette.com/satanic cabal

In case you weren't sufficiently horrified by your fellow Americans, a recent study conducted by the Public Religion Research Institute has found that 15 percent of Americans believe that "[t]he government, media and financial worlds in the U.S. are controlled by a group of Satan-worshiping pedophiles who run a global child sex trafficking operation."

Yeah.

That number goes up to 23 percent for Republicans in general, 25 percent for white evangelical Protestants, 26 percent for Hispanic Protestants ... and 40 percent for Americans who most trust far-Right news sources such as Newsmax and OANN. And it's not the only ridiculous QAnon-adjacent conspiracy a fair number of Americans believe in. Twenty percent believe "[t]here is a storm coming soon that will sweep away the elites in power and restore the rightful leaders" and 15 percent believe that "ecause things have gotten so far off track, true American patriots may have to resort to violence in order to save our country."

And 28 percent of Republicans believe both of those things.

Though perhaps more concerning, frankly, is the large percentage of people who merely consider themselves "QAnon doubters" versus "QAnon rejectors."

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[uponit7771]

1. Then 15% of America would like the panicker a lot !! 😁😁😁

[Effete Snob]

2. Only 54% of Democrats are "Qanon rejecters"

The right doesn't have a monopoly on believing in that "global pedophile network" thing.

[JHB]

3. I wonder how much of that is simply the default "doubt" of people who don't really know about...

...something. The bit they do know sounds fishy, but they haven't bothered with the details, so "doubt" rather than "reject".