The QAnon Coalition feat Alex Kaplan
Fever Dreams
The Daily Beast
4.4 • 767 Ratings
🗓️ 2 November 2022
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Summary
There’s a very good chance that at least two secretary of state positions in the battleground states of Nevada and Arizona will be won by people who are part of a coalition put together by a QAnon promoter who some people believe is also JFK Jr. In this week’s episode of political podcast Fever Dreams, hosts Will Sommer and Kelly Weill take a deeper look at that “shadowy character,” Juan O. Savin, and how he, along with his supporters, could destroy American democracy. Also on the podcast, Alex Kaplan, a senior researcher at Media Matters for America who is an expert on all things Savin, says that while it’s hard to say exactly what would happen if these candidates take office, “the concern is that if these people got elected they could try to cast doubt on the election result or frankly just try to flat out overturn it and refuse to certify it. What this could do is essentially connect QAnon to a constitutional crisis, and that’s what could play out here if that/s what happens.”
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, I'm Will Summer and welcome to The Daily Beast, Fever Dreams. |
| 0:03.5 | I'm a politics reporter at The Daily Beast. |
| 0:05.5 | My book on Q&N, Trust the Plan, The Rise of Q&N, and the Conspiracy that Unhinged America will be available in February and is available for pre-order now. |
| 0:13.5 | And I'm Kelly Weil. I am also a reporter at The Daily Beast, and I'm the author of the book Off the Edge, Flat Earthers, Conspiracy Culture, and Why People Will Believe Anything. |
| 0:23.3 | On this podcast, we're going to take you on plunges into the sometimes hilarious, sometimes scary fanatics, infecting the way that millions of Americans view the world and how they vote. |
| 0:31.4 | Even in the aftermath of the Trump administration, the energy of these conspiracy theorists, grifters, and influencers, is still pushing our mainstream |
| 0:39.1 | political landscape closer and closer to a breaking point. |
| 0:43.0 | Welcome back to Fever Dreams. As always, I'm Will Summer, and I'm here with The Daily Beast, |
| 0:47.5 | Kelly Weil. Kelly, how you doing? I'm all right, Will. How's it going? |
| 0:51.2 | You know, things have been better. So we are going to do this week, we're going to do kind of a little format buster of a |
| 0:57.3 | fever dreams episode. |
| 0:58.6 | So the midterms are next week. |
| 1:00.7 | And I was thinking, what would be the fever dreams final word on this election? |
| 1:04.8 | Obviously, there are people you should trust more with who's going to win and questions |
| 1:08.9 | like that. |
| 1:09.5 | But there's something that has been kind of bugging me that it's not getting barely any attention. And I thought, hey, we have a |
| 1:15.2 | podcast. We can talk about it. And the thing is the fact that potentially, I think there's very good |
| 1:20.3 | chance that at least two Secretary of States positions in battleground states will be won by people |
| 1:25.3 | who are part of a coalition put together by a QAnon |
| 1:28.8 | promoter people think is JFK Jr. So I thought I would devote this episode to that man, Wano Savin, |
| 1:35.2 | and his coalition and how they could destroy American democracy. How does that sound? I mean, |
| 1:40.1 | for our episode, great for American democracy, not so hot. |
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