Back to the Real Salt Lake Newsfeed

‘We are Q’: Conspiracy cult leaps from the internet to the crowd at Trump’s ‘MAGA’ tour

From somewhere in the vast and mysterious deep state, a dissident agent rises up to give the people cryptic clues about how their heroic president will push back the forces of evil and make America great again. The renegade informant is known only as "Q," and if he actually exists, it's not in a movie, but somewhere in the Washington, D.C., bureaucracy.

Energized by Q’s complex web of conspiracy notions about the forces aligned against President Donald Trump, Q’s followers have spread virally both online and now out in real life too, forming a movement known as QAnon that is making itself visible at Trump’s rallies and other public gatherings.