America hasn’t given up on the conspiracy theory behind ‘Q’ of QAnon

It’s all very well to see Donald Trump fly away into the orange sunset. But whatever happens — will happen — to Q? While some of our more archaic Anglophiles may think we are asking about well-being of the head of ‘Q Branch’, the research and development branch of Queen Bess’ British Secret Service, we are obviously wondering about Q, the anonymous, unconfirmed progenitor of QAnon, the far-right conspiracy theory in the US that believes that Trump was fighting a cabal of ‘Satan-worshipping, cannibalistic, paedophiles’ — all Democrats, of course.

While some may have added ‘2 and 2’ together and found ‘666’ in the wrapped up, mittened solitary socialistically distanced figure of Bernie Sanders at Wednesday’s inauguration function of President Joe Biden and Vice-President Kamala Harris, some QAnoners, reeling at the thought of a life without Trump, are wondering whether Sanders is Q.

With more signs and T-shirts with the message, ‘We are Q’, popping up in the US, the appeal of the supposed ‘high-level government official with Q clearance’, whose role as John the Baptist to Trump’s Christ lies unfulfilled, may shift — and shift the sands of US politics.

Could it be that Q is BS? By which we don’t mean bovine faeces, but Bernie Sanders. Don’t watch this space. Because the alt-truth is out there.

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