In just a few years, the Q-Anon conspiracy has gone from obscure, internet message board to fully mainstream, @mehdirhasan says. How did this happen and why does the right seem particularly susceptible? @willsommer has some answers - he joins to talk his new book

Feb 28, 2023 · 7:18 PM UTC

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Replying to @MehdiHasanShow @mehdirhasan @willsommer
It's not just "the right" that feeds white-supremacists hallucinogenic lies, and it's not just maga†s, who gobble them up. The part of the equation that you're no longer allowed to talk about — the seemingly-civilized "liberals" who stab us in the back — still MATTERS. 1/3
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Replying to @MehdiHasanShow @mehdirhasan @willsommer
maga†s' fascist, white-Christian-nationalist terrorism, has all sorts of international ties, to all sorts of foreign, fascist, white-Christian-nationalist terrorists, militias, propagandists and governments. And the majority of Democrats tell complicit lies to protect them 2/3
Replying to @MehdiHasanShow @mehdirhasan @willsommer
Rather than enforce laws against terrorism, complicit Democrats invented the entirely false, entirely racist excuse, that "Domestic Terrorism" can't be prosecuted as terrorism (lie 1), and that magats' white-Christian-nationalist terrorism is somehow just "Domestic" (lie 2). 3/3
Replying to @MehdiHasanShow @mehdirhasan @willsommer
Gov.officials; top 1%, lobbyist, well connected took advantage of student debt programs or loopholes; also have full healthcare, which is all paid for own the backs of the same poor that actually pay their taxes, but won't allow taxpayers have the same advantage that they have.