What REALLY was "the whole Qanon thing"? I have a sort of theory of everything. Here it is.
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The Coup That Didn’t Look Like One:
What if Q wasn’t the rebellion, but the pacifier?
Something happened in 2016 that wasn’t supposed to happen.
The wrong man won.
He wasn’t meant to be there. Not because he lacked qualifications, but because he wasn’t part of the arrangement. He wasn’t vetted, approved, or aligned with the right networks. He had no real loyalty to the bureaucratic class or its rituals. He was loud, improvisational, and hard to control. A symbol, to many, of everything the system was supposed to prevent.
To the people running things, it wasn’t just a political loss. It was a crisis of legitimacy.
And they never really recovered from it.
What followed wasn’t a response. It was a reaction. Deep, coordinated, and sustained. Call it a tantrum, but with structure.
The media that helped lift Trump in the primaries, thinking he’d be an easy kill for Hillary, pivoted instantly to containment. The intelligence community that had already launched surveillance under flimsy pretexts leaned harder into it. Russiagate became the scaffolding for four years of soft sabotage. Not to correct course, but to send a message: this wasn’t supposed to happen, and it won’t happen again.
And then, right on cue, came Q.
Zoom out just a bit, and the theory writes itself. A bizarre online movement emerges, encouraging Trump’s most loyal supporters to do... nothing. To wait. To “trust the plan.” To believe, against all odds, that everything was under control and that secret forces were about to save the country.
It looked like resistance. But it wasn’t.
It was sedation.
Q gave people riddles instead of roadmaps. Fantasies instead of action. While institutions quietly tightened their grip, the base sat back and watched, waiting for the arrests that never came. It may have been the most effective pacification op in modern political history. It never needed to convince everyone. Just enough to slow them down.
And while that was happening, Trump’s administration was hollowed out. Disloyal appointees. Constant leaks. Bad advice. Impeachments. From the outside it looked like dysfunction. From the inside, it looked like a wall. Designed not to protect him, but to isolate him.
Then came 2020.
And with it, COVID. The perfect storm. Public fear, emergency powers, behavioral controls, and just enough justification to rewrite the rules. Lockdowns. Ballot changes. Months of voting by mail. And somehow, Joe Biden won.
It didn’t matter that he barely campaigned. Or that he was visibly fading. He wasn’t the candidate. He was the vehicle. The stand-in for the return of control to the people who thought it was always theirs.
Some of them never left.
If you see Biden as a figurehead, it makes sense to ask who is actually running things. And if you trace the names, the policies, the continuity, the answer is not hard to find. The Obama-era crew stayed active. Bureaucrats, legal minds, consultants, intel officials. They didn’t need to win elections. They just needed to manage outcomes.
Meanwhile, democratic processes kept dissolving. The DNC hasn’t had a real primary since 2012. Candidates are introduced, not chosen. Opposition is filtered, flagged, and reframed as extremism. The idea that someone outside the network could win again is treated as a threat, not a possibility.
So when they say “our democracy is under attack,” it’s worth asking: what do they mean by our?
Because to them, democracy means their control of the institutions. Their grip on the narrative. Their power to decide what counts.
Which brings us back to the start.
The real coup didn’t happen on January 6. It didn’t need to. It happened quietly. It happened through agencies, platforms, courts, and headlines. It happened through years of narrative scaffolding. It happened while people were told to “trust the plan.”
And it worked.
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