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Reports of QAnon’s death aren’t exaggerated

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Virginia Heffernan
Jun 11, 2021
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Ronald Watkins pictured from the shoulders up, wearing a gray t-shirt and glasses. He is holding and looking at a cell phone in a black folding case.
Ron Watkins is 34. (Wiki photo)

QAnon is hardly the first conspiracy theory to sweep the nation.

What QAnon calls the Deep State was once known as “the hidden government behind a government.”

Where QAnon says that John F. Kennedy Jr. faked his death, past fantasists of yore believed that John Belushi’s death by overdose was a government hit.

And when QAnon…

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