Elizabeth Bruenig

Elizabeth Bruenig @ebruenig

i don't believe any of the q/pizzagate stuff (obviously!) but i suspect the spinning of an elaborate -- but knowable -- conspiracy serves in part to transfer and alleviate anxiety about all the unknown, subterranean conspiracies we sense are there but can't begin to identify — PolitiTweet.org

Elizabeth Bruenig @ebruenig

@chrislhayes @mattyglesias yeah, i think this is all basically compatible though: this enormous, byzantine, minutely detailed conspiracy theory is about displacing anxieties generated by very real abuse that the theorists are horrified by but powerless to respond to. q, crucially, comes with a hero. — PolitiTweet.org