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On Donald Trump's struggling social platform,

Trump is hailed as a hero and savior.

They vilify Joe Biden, and compare

Him to the devil or Adolf Hitler.

They bask when Donald Trump shares their content.

By using their own language to address

These QAnon supporters directly,

Trump tells them that they've been right all along,

And that he shares in their secret mission.

An anthropologist from Brandeis U,

Ms. Janet McIntosh who, like Ms. Bloom,

Has studied QAnon's use of language,

Says Trump's language allows him to endorse

Their hope for violent uprising without

Expressly saying so, citing his post

About "the storm" as a good example.

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I've been in the fight against war, fascism, injustice and inhumanity for 47 years. I was at MayDay, 1971, (more...)
 

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