After talking to QAnon folks I think we should be thinking about it less as a political conspiracy theory (particularly the specifics, which clearly have not happened) and less as a secular religious movement of sorts. https://twitter.com/oneunderscore__/status/1288885566008897536

It operates as a means of answering the unanswerable, where belief matters more than the events you’re supposed to believe will happen do. There is a purpose, there is a point, there is a power beyond what you can see.

When I talk to QAnon folks, what they respond to me with most are questions: “Why did Jeffrey Epstein get away with it for so long? Why are people so angry? Why did that happen? Why is this happening? The only way any of this makes sense is if…”

And sometimes what it sounds like — to me, mind you — is Job 30:20. "I cry out to you, God, but you do not answer; I stand up, but you merely look at me."