Trust the Plan: The Rise of QAnon and the Conspiracy That Unhinged America

by Will Sommer

These days, NESARA, now often called GESARA—the “national” has been replaced by “global”—has become a key part of QAnon lore. As early Q believers tried to puzzle out the clues, conspiracy theorists who already believed in NESARA claimed Q was talking about their law. NESARA offers something personal for QAnon believers waiting for the Storm: a world without debts or disease. QAnon followers write “NESARA/GESARA” on their signs and tell one another about the perfect world that awaits them. Researchers have struggled to find what makes certain people more likely to support and believe in conspiracy theories. Some research suggests that people with Manichean worldviews who see the world as more black-and-white are more likely to support conspiracy theories. Other factors that indicate a tendency toward conspiracism include preferences for strict hierarchies, holding a dark view of human nature and higher distrust of other people, and viewing the world as a jungle where “the strong dominate the weak.” Conspiracy theory believers often display obsessions with the sufferings of their own identity group—their religion, their race, their country—at the hands of sinister outside groups.