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QAnon Is the Future of the Republican Party
JUCY QUOTES
A few Republicans, to their credit, have spoken out against Greene and QAnon—but they are all much lower profile than Trump. On the same day as Trump’s warm words for Greene, Republican congressman Adam Kinzinger of Illinois tweeted, “Qanon is a fabrication” adding there was “no place in Congress for these conspiracies.” Another Republican, Virginia congressman Denver Riggleman tweeted, “QAnon is the mental gonorrhea of conspiracy theories. It’s disgusting and you want to get rid of it as fast as possible.”
But if QAnon is gonorrhea, more and more Republicans are getting infected, and party leaders are doing nothing to stop the spread. Kinzinger and Riggleman are lonely voices in their own party. As CNN reports, “Top Republicans, including President Donald Trump and House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, are embracing their party’s nominee for a House seat in Georgia, despite her history of racist and anti-Semitic remarks and promotion of the baseless QAnon conspiracy theory.” Other Georgia Republicans, notably Senator Kelly Loeffler and congressman Doug Collins, have joined in welcoming Greene’s primary victory.
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