AMERICAN CYNICISM HAS REACHED A BREAKING POINT
The nation’s politics is in dire need of earnestness. Can its culture meet the moment?
By Megan Garber

On tuesday evening, at the start of his Fox News show, Tucker Carlson shared the results of an investigation that he and his staff had conducted into a well-known agent of American disinformation. “We spent all day trying to locate the famous QAnon,” Carlson said, “which, in the end, we learned is not even a website. If it’s out there, we could not find it.” They kept looking, though, checking Marjorie Taylor Greene’s Twitter feed and “the intel community,” before coming to the obvious conclusion: “Cable news” and “politicians talking on TV,” Carlson said, must be responsible for the lies running rampant in America. “Maybe they’re from QAnon,” he added. “You be the judge.”

This anti-investigation, like so much of what happens on Carlson’s show every day, was funny right up until it was frightening. (Just before informing his viewers of his inability to locate QAnon.com, Carlson had attempted a rebranding of disinformation itself: “Freelance thinking,” he called it.) The most basic of good-faith searches would have revealed the reality—and the danger—of a widely believed conspiracy theory positing, in part, that Democrats eat children. But reality is not Carlson’s project. Destabilizing it is. Fox’s most popular personality, his show’s marketing literature will tell you, offers “spirited debates” about the news of the day. In truth, Carlson is simply selling cynicism. Night after night, he informs you that ...

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Carlson's right. There is no QAnon.com. That's not how QAnon communicates....assuming he actually exists. He may have become an imaginary icon where individual whack jobs invent their own conspiracy theories and then attribute them to him (or her). That he's imaginary and multi-faceted doesn't make him any less dangerous. Hitler wasn't dangerous by himself. He was dangerous because of his followers. The same applies to QAnon.

Q may or may not exist.
Q-Anon is as real as Tucker Carlson.