"A Skyrocketing Movement Is Taking Advantage of an Environment Rife with Uncertainty"

 "If conspiracy theories flourish when one's understanding of one's country is badly shaken, it's clear that many white Americans found the election of a Black man antithetical to their private sense of the American order of things. Their solution: He must not be American. Many women in America have had to deal with other traumatic revelations: They have watched their countrymen admire and celebrate a man who demeans female heads of state and brags about assaulting women. As citizens, they've watched him lie to the country he is supposed to be leading—even and especially about the pandemic. He falls short of everything most of us have historically understood the American presidency to require. Their solution? He must not be failing, or lying, or ignorant. Much better for the press to be wrong than for the president of the United States to be unconstrained by anything but his own self-interest. 'Forget the press. Read the internet,' Trump said in October of 2016.                                                                                                                                                                                                                         "A lot of people have."

Lili Loofbourow at Slate explains why "QAnon Took Off With Women This Summer."