<em>The Atlantic Daily</em>: QAnon Isn’t Going Away

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Last night, President Donald Trump was given the opportunity to denounce QAnon outright. He didn’t.

As my colleague Russell Berman writes, that news is shocking but not surprising. Perhaps even more shocking is the conspiracy theory’s place in the national political conversation: Although it’s hard to measure how many people believe in Q, at least one adherent is “virtually assured” to win a seat to Congress in just a few weeks.

The pro-Trump conspiracy theory, which holds in part that global elites are secretly abusing children, isn’t going away. Here are three things to consider as you think about QAnon’s rise to prominence:

Embrace your wandering mind. “What matters—in a lecture, and an education—is, after all, thinking itself,” the writer Lily Meyer muses.