On Jan. 6, thousands of people descended on the US Capitol to aid President Donald Trump in combating what they perceived as a shadowy cabal of Satan-worshipping pedophiles. They, like millions of Americans, believed that a mysterious insider known as "Q" was exposing a vast deep-state conspiracy.
In their new book Pastels and Pedophiles: Inside the Mind of QAnon, radicalization experts Drs. Mia Bloom and Sophia Moskalenko explain why the rise of QAnon should not surprise us.
Join us for a look at QAnon—what it is and what can be done about its corrosive effect on our democracy—in this installment of Leonard Lopate at Large on WBAI.