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To: Brumar89 who wrote (1231786)	5/21/2020 1:04:20 PM
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The party that nominated Christine O’Donnell and Sharron Angle has now nominated an adherent of the Q Anon cult for Senate. Seriously, it wasn't even close. She got nearly 150k votes." Via the NYT: SEATTLE — Republicans in Oregon have selected a Senate candidate who promotes the QAnon conspiracy theory, the latest sign that conservatives are increasingly willing to embrace a movement built on a baseless series of plotlines about President Trump battling a shadowy globalist cabal. Jo Rae Perkins was carrying about 50 percent of the vote in Oregon’s primary as of Wednesday afternoon, vanquishing three other Republican candidates to become the party’s nominee for the seat currently held by Senator Jeff Merkley, a Democrat. While the incumbent is considered a strong favorite, and Ms. Perkins’s embrace of fringe ideas could alienate mainstream voters, she has the backing of party leaders for a seat Republicans held as recently as 2009. If you are a little vague about the Q-theory, it's probably because you are sane. As the Times notes, the theory portrays Trump "as a heroic mastermind working with patriotic members of government to dismantle the cabal and “deep state” actors, leading up to mass arrests of the likes of former President Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton and others. Adherents pore over each new Q message, hunting for clues and patterns, pointing out coincidences involving the number 17 because Q is the 17th letter of the alphabet and embracing theories such as the idea that John F. Kennedy Jr. faked his own death and is alive now posting as Q." So, yeah, things are going well. Exit take: This is another reminder that the dysfunction on the right won't disappear with Trump's departure, whenever that happens.