02768cam a2200325 i 4500 506169014 TxAuBib 20210827120000.0 210610s2021||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u bl2021014430 9781612199290 HRD 28.99 1612199291 HRD 28.99 TxAuBib rda Rothschild, Mike. The storm is upon us [BOOK] : how QAnon became a movement, cult, and conspiracy theory of everything / Mike Rothschild. Brooklyn : Melville House, 2021. xviii, 301 pages ; 24 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier Includes bibliographical references (pages 253-292) and index. On October 5th, 2017, President Trump made a cryptic remark in the State Dining Room at a gathering of military officials. He said it felt like “the calm before the storm”—then refused to elaborate as puzzled journalists asked him to explain. But on the infamous message boards of 4chan, a mysterious poster going by “Q Clearance Patriot,” who claimed to be in “military intelligence,” began the elaboration on their own. In the days that followed, Q’s wild yarn explaining Trump's remarks began to rival the sinister intricacies of a Tom Clancy novel, while satisfying the deepest desires of MAGA-America. But did any of what Q predicted come to pass? No. Did that stop people from clinging to every word they were reading, expanding its mythology, and promoting it wider and wider? No. Why not? Who were these rapt listeners? How do they reconcile their worldview with the America they see around them? Why do their numbers keep growing? Mike Rothschild, a journalist specializing in conspiracy theories, has been collecting their stories for years, and through interviews with QAnon converts, apostates, and victims, as well as psychologists, sociologists, and academics, he is uniquely equipped to explain the movement and its followers. In The Storm Is Upon Us, he takes readers from the background conspiracies and cults that fed the Q phenomenon, to its embrace by right-wing media and Donald Trump, through the rending of families as loved ones became addicted to Q’s increasingly violent rhetoric, to the storming of the Capitol, and on. Provided by publisher. 20210827. Conspiracy theories Political aspects. Conspiracy theories. Radicalization. United States. United States. Psychological aspects. United States. Politics and government 21st century.