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QAnon, Hybrid Warfare, and the 2020 Election
We are a few months from the general election, and as of now, it looks like President Donald Trump will go down to defeat. We are already seeing a similar pattern to 2016, including hybrid warfare. The intelligence community already identified Russian actors in our elections that want Donald Trump to win a second term. To be fair, they also identified the Chinese and Iranians, but theirs are not equivalent operations. It goes without saying, the president could care less.
It's been said that this is the most important election of our lifetime, and perhaps, for once, this is no exaggeration. Donald Trump wants to remain in office. It’s not because he respects the office. He does not. It’s not because he even likes being president, he does not. Trump desires to be is an autocrat, with infinite power. This is the kind of power that he imagines the office to have. He seems surprised every time he comes across the limits that the constitution imposes on the officeholder.
Then there is the paranoid nature of the United States. We have a small group that can easily fall under the spells of paranoia and believes things that otherwise make no sense. This is part of our politics and most of the time they remain on the edges of reality. Some of the conspiracies we love and hate have been around since the time of the John Birch Society’ at the very…