History of Religious Violence Predicts QAnon's End

QAnon won't last forever. Sooner or later, even if the failure of their prophecies doesn't necessarily do them in, conspiracy theories unravel and violent movements associated with them eventually end. I make this prediction based on a study of the demise of recent violent religious and religious-related movements around the world, including ISIS, which is the subject of my forthcoming book, When God Stops Fighting: How Religious Violence Ends (University of California Press). Often, I have found, they erode from within. They can vanish as quickly as they emerged.