Julian Feeld hosts and produces the QAA podcast. He has been cited by and appeared on CNN, Wired, PBS, HBO, Vice News, and Arte. He writes about politics, conspiracy theories, and fringe online communities.
The Conservative Political Action Conference was a pageant of outlandish costumes and cruel humor. But don’t be distracted by the sideshows: the MAGA right takes itself very seriously, and it’s hard at work forming a transnational far-right alliance.
The QAnon conspiracy theory that Donald Trump was fighting a satanic pedophile cabal may have faded from national discourse, but its ideology, networks, and practices have become integrated into American politics.