are plenty of intelligent, seemingly normal individuals who have come to see the world through a distorted lens of conspiracy theory—especially as real injustices and breaches of public trust have hardened healthy skepticism into reflexive suspicion. Broadly speaking, QAnon is now a collective of Baby Boomers, young people, ruralites, urbanites, white supremacists, people of color, right-wing extremists—even progressives. For many, the allure is less about what it makes them think than how it makes them feel.
