SocProf reviewed Trust the Plan by Will Sommer
The Imperative of Taking QAnon Seriously
5 stars
Trust the Plan, by Daily Beast's Will Sommer, covers some of the same territory Van Badham's QAnon and On does, but because the former is more recent, it almost picks up where Badham leaves off. Sommer goes through some of the history of QAnon, starting all the way back to 4Chan and Gamergate, all the way to now. Some of this is already well known, and there is a certain amount of fatalism in Sommer's view that our current system cannot deal with QAnon, now that it's been welcome into the GOP. At the same time, Sommer's book clearly shows that QAnon is dangerous. The only quibble I'll have with the book is the repetition of the false frame of "America's political polarization". We're not polarized: one party decided to embrace a conspiracy theory and make it its core ideology, on a path to fascism via local and state-level authoritarianism. …
Trust the Plan, by Daily Beast's Will Sommer, covers some of the same territory Van Badham's QAnon and On does, but because the former is more recent, it almost picks up where Badham leaves off. Sommer goes through some of the history of QAnon, starting all the way back to 4Chan and Gamergate, all the way to now. Some of this is already well known, and there is a certain amount of fatalism in Sommer's view that our current system cannot deal with QAnon, now that it's been welcome into the GOP. At the same time, Sommer's book clearly shows that QAnon is dangerous. The only quibble I'll have with the book is the repetition of the false frame of "America's political polarization". We're not polarized: one party decided to embrace a conspiracy theory and make it its core ideology, on a path to fascism via local and state-level authoritarianism. Sommer sees no solution to this as he seems to think it's already too late.