I watched them cheer Wood on for nearly an hour, applauding him and egging on his call for Democrats to face firing squads, it became clear that they were ready to move on to something far more ambitious and dangerous than protesting mask laws. QAnon had adapted to the pandemic and grown its base in the process. But as the pandemic receded, QAnon was returning to its origins and bringing those new recruits along to a darker place. Covid had just been a gateway to the story at the heart of QAnon: violent fantasies of political murder.
