Even people who don’t see themselves as QAnon followers have come to see QAnon as a respectable political position. Sarah Longwell, a Republican strategist who opposes Trump, has studied QAnon’s sense of acceptance within the party. In 2021, some news reports had claimed, often with little evidence, that QAnon was in shambles after Biden’s inauguration and Q’s disappearance. Yet while conducting focus groups of Republican voters after Biden’s inauguration, Longwell found that QAnon was more popular in the party than ever, even among average Republicans who didn’t consider themselves to be
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