A supporter with a “Q” sign at a Trump rally in Wilkes-Barre, Pa.(Rick Loomis / Getty Images)
“The government, media, and financial worlds in the US are controlled by a group of Satan-worshipping pedophiles who run a global child sex trafficking operation”—that’s QAnon’s crazy idea, and 30 million Americans say they mostly agree. Chris Lehmann comments.
Also: Fintan O’Toole’s personal history of Ireland since the 1950s: how a country dominated by a corrupt Catholic church came to legalize gay marriage and abortion—by referendum. His much-honored ‘personal history’ of Ireland, titled We Don’t Know Ourselves, is out now in paperback.
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