There’s a great article in today’s Bulwark entitled “The Conspiracy Theorists Are Coming for Your Schools: QAnoners and anti-maskers are embedding themselves into our political and civic life.” (I said it was a great article, I didn’t say it was great news.) The gist of the article is this:

The internet meme prophet “Q” may have disappeared, but like any good apocalypse QAnon didn’t die, it just changed. Deadlines for the QAnon doomsday (“The Storm”) and the extraconstitutional reinstatement of Donald Trump to the presidency have come and gone, but most of the instigators and spreaders of these ideas are still there. Some are now campaigning for office. Some are still trying to overturn the 2020 election. And now some are trying to overthrow our schools.

Perhaps it’s no big shock that movements like this, misguided as they may be, seem so hard to bottle up. Three sociologists examined this phenomenon in an awesome book, When Prophecy Fails…