How Cults Like QAnon Respond To Embarrassing Failures

A historian and a therapist on what happens when outlandish predictions fail to come true

By Peter Coy

Inauguration Day was agonizing for followers of the QAnon conspiracy theory. There was no blackout at noon. President Trump did not hang on to the presidency. He did not declare martial…

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