“Why QAnon followers are pinning their last desperate hopes on Trump emerging as president on March 4.”

Michael Barkun, Professor Emeritus of political science in the Maxwell School, was quoted in the Business Insider story “Why QAnon followers are pinning their last desperate hopes on Trump emerging as president on March 4.” Barkun, who studies the radical right and previously worked for the FBI on security threats from extremist groups, says that he is confident the FBI is paying close attention to QAnon’s activities, but he doesn’t believe the conspiracy group is going away anytime soon. “They will construct more and more complex rationalizations that push the events that they wish for farther and farther into the future,” Barkun says.