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The Bulwark Podcast

Will Sommer: The Power of QAnon

The Bulwark Podcast

The Bulwark

Politics, News Commentary, News, Society & Culture

4.611.6K Ratings

🗓️ 21 February 2023

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

Conspiracy theories had been gaining ground in the GOP before Trump, but after he became conspiracy-theorist-in chief, many of his fans dove into conspiracies too. QAnon now has 10 million followers, and Trump is the messiah figure at its center. Will Sommer joins Charlie Sykes today. Will Sommer's "Trust the Plan": https://www.harpercollins.com/products/trust-the-plan-will-sommer?variant=40493482541090 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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Good morning, welcome to the Bullwork Podcast.

0:40.0

It is February 21st, 2023, and a new book is out today.

0:47.0

Trust the plan, the rise of QAnon and the conspiracy that unhinged America by Will Summers.

0:55.0

This is the way Garrett Graff was the author of Watergate, a new history described.

0:59.0

What Will Summers has been spending the last seven years doing.

1:02.0

Will Summers all but invented serious cultural reporting on the far right,

1:07.0

inhabiting the worst corners of the internet, so that the rest of us could understand them

1:11.0

and his new book on QAnon serves as a vital roadmap to one of the strangest and most disturbing movements of modern politics,

1:19.0

writing with insight, empathy, and historical perspective.

1:22.0

Will masterfully documents how a random anonymous internet post on Reddit in 2017 rose up and swallowed the Republican party.

1:32.0

Will Summers joins me on the podcast.

1:35.0

First of all, congratulations on the new book, Will.

1:37.0

Thank you, Charlie.

1:38.0

As you said, it's been a long time coming and I put my sanity on the line here, but I'm happy with the results.

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