QAnon can seem focused on the present, with followers litigating the meaning of 8chan posts or Trump’s hand gestures. But its goal is a utopian one: the post-cabal world that follows the hyperviolent Storm, often with a NESARA-style economic utopia attached. Those hopes for their own personal betterment, with debts and diseases abolished, mean there’s more on the line for believers than who controls the White House. They think this affects the most important parts of their lives: their children, their finances, their health. This is personal for them.