Inside QAnon’s Rise and How Trump Became It’s God Emperor

The New Abnormal

The Daily Beast

News & Politics

4.6 • 7.9K Ratings

🗓️ 19 February 2023

⏱️ 36 minutes

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The Daily Beast’s Will Sommer takes Andy Levy from The New Abnormal through how QAnon has managed to evolve from a fringe group to now being more popular than many major religions in the U.S.

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0:00.0	Hey, Shantay Joseph here and I'm the host of the Guardians Pop Culture podcast.
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0:32.8	before later publishing shock headlines revealing the full truth about the fraud.
0:38.7	On a journey that takes in from New York's hip-hop scene to Indian scam schools, journalist
0:43.2	Janai McGregor dives into the murky underworld of NFTs in an attempt to uncover the true identity
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1:30.9	And I'm producer Jesse Cannon and I'm here to make sure things don't go too far off the rails.
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1:39.4	people in politics, media and beyond.
1:42.2	Our goal is to try and make sense of our current crazy world, our new abnormal and hopefully
1:47.6	even make you laugh through the tears.
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