Marjorie Taylor Greene Could Be First Rep. (R-QAnon)

Manny Otiko
4 min readAug 12, 2020

Bigoted fabulists are at home in GOP

Majorie Taylor Greene is a QAnon follower. (YouTube screencap)

Ive been following the laughably insane QAnon conspiracy theory for a few years. And to my dismay, it’s not going away. It’s only getting bigger, more mainstream and according to The Atlantic might be morphing into a religion.

This shouldn’t be surprising because all religions begin as cults, Christianity certainly did. And is believing in hogwash about a cabal of child-murdering Satanists who control the world (QAnon) any more absurd than believing humans carry the souls of dead aliens executed by the galactic overlord Xenu? However, the FBI regards QAnon as a domestic terror threat since several adherents have committed acts of violence.

QAnon gaining political power?

But the frightening part of QAnon is its adherents are on the verge of achieving real political power. Media Matters counts more than 70 QAnon followers running for office. And one of them, Majorie Taylor Greene, has a good chance of getting elected to Congress.

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Manny Otiko

Manny Otiko writes about race, politics and sports. He has been published in Salon and LA Weekly. Follow him on Twitter @mannyotiko.