The World According to Q — with Travis View

What would inspire someone to singlehandedly initiate an armed
standoff on the Hoover Dam, or lead the police on a
100-mile-an-hour car chase while calling for help from an
anonymous internet source, or travel hundreds of miles alone to
shoot up a pizza parlor? The people who did these things were all
connected to the decentralized cult-like internet conspiracy
theory group called QAnon. Our guest this episode, Travis View,
is a researcher, writer and podcast host who has spent the last
few years trying to understand the people who’ve become wrapped
up in QAnon and the concerning consequences as Q followers
increasingly leave their screens and take extreme actions in the
real world. As many as six candidates who support QAnon are
running for Congress and will be on the ballot for the 2020
elections, threatening to upend long-held Republican
establishment seats. This just happened to a five-term Republican
congressman in Colorado. Travis warns that QAnon is an extremism
problem, not a disinformation or political problem, and
dismissing QAnon as a fringe threat underestimates how quickly
their views can leapfrog into mainstream debates on the left and
the right.