Blame Fox News For the Rise of QAnon

Published: Aug. 14, 2020, 8 a.m.

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It\\u2019s the \\u201csecret sauce\\u201d of Fox News: \\u201ctell people who feel socially inferior that you\'re really the smart one. You\'re really informed, you know the real secrets about what\'s really going on,\\u201d explains Rick Wilson on the latest episode of The New Abnormal. For 20 years, Fox has been force-feeding this sauce to its listeners, saying \\u201cthat your life would be perfect if it wasn\'t for that George Soros, your life would be perfect if it wasn\'t for ANTIFA. They prep these people\'s minds to reject empirical truth all the time.\\u201d And finally, you have them believing in lizard people. In satanic pedophile rings. In QAnon. But maybe, Molly Jong-Fast offers, the QAnon takeover of the Republican party isn\\u2019t so bad. Marjorie Taylor Greene, the conspiratorial congressional nominee? Maybe \\u201cshe and Devin Nunes could someday be on a reality show where they\'ve run away from their spouses. And they\'re living in a bunker in South Dakota. It\'s called \\u2018My Dumb Congressmen.\\u2019\\u201d Then! Rep. Lauren Underwood, a public health nurse and the youngest Black woman in Congress, talks about her experience doing pandemic preparation in the Obama administration\\u2014and whether we can do anything now to reverse Team Trump\\u2019s missteps. And! Hank Gilbert, who\\u2019s running against Congressman COVID Louie Gohmert, talks about staring down pistol-toting Trump minions for daring to question Dear Leader. Plus! Molly breaks down Kamala Harris\\u2019 generational strengths. America\\u2019s worst governor compares reopening schools to killing bin Laden. And the ghouls running the late Herman Cain\\u2019s twitter account attack


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