"The most hardcore QAnon followers are in disarray," said Daniel J. Jones, president of Advance Democracy, a nonpartisan nonprofit that tracks extremist groups and misinformation online. "After years of waiting for the 'Great Awakening,' QAnon adherents seemed genuinely shocked to see President Biden successfully inaugurated. A significant percentage online are writing that they are now done with the QAnon, while others are doubling down and promoting new conspiracies."The thing is, this is by no means a New American Thingee. The 19th century gave us The Second Great Awakening, which was really the first in the time of nationhood.
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The better part of 200 years ago, much of the country went through much the same trauma. One of the more wingnut groups, Millerites were led to believe that Jesus would return, on a specific day. Well, I guess he didn't.
October 22, 1844, the day Jesus was expected to return, ended like any other day[31] to the disappointment of the Millerites. Both Millerite leaders and followers were left generally bewildered and disillusioned. Responses varied: some Millerites continued to look daily for Christ's return, others predicted different dates—among them April, July, and October 1845. Some theorized that the world had entered the seventh millennium, the "Great Sabbath", and that, therefore, the saved should not work.Dejavu all over again. Fun for the feeble minded.
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