Worst of all, the idea of a deep-state cabal that operates with impunity has become ingrained in the Republican Party’s mindset. Senate Republicans fought Biden’s nomination of Supreme Court justice Ketanji Brown Jackson by accusing her of being pro-pedophile—a ludicrous charge that’s impossible to imagine being deployed pre-QAnon. Even conservative voters who laugh at believers’ excesses have bought into the idea that the 2020 election was stolen by a cabal whose crimes are always just on the verge of being exposed. A year after the Capitol riot, an NPR poll found that two-thirds of
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Many Democrats also believe conspiracy theories or aspects of the “terrible thing that happened that may one day be undone,
