n>In the 1920s, while the world was under siege by an influenza pandemic, the Ku Klux Klan was at its apogee of popularity and political power, spreading falsehoods about Jews taking over the world, Catholic nuns serving as sex slaves, and Black Americans destroying American culture. One hundred years later the world is in the throes of another pandemic; and while the KKK, which was once called the “Invisible Empire” because of its effective control of government, is still relevant, it is QAnon, a diffuse online-to-offline movement based on a network of conspiracy theories, that is now intertwined with much of the Republican Party. Certainly, QAnon’s worldview encompasses longstanding elements of the political far-right, including white nationalism, an anti-government stance, and bigotry — Islamophobia and antisemitism in particular. Read Full Article »