Has QAnon been vindicated? The online movement has, obliquely, been the best guide to events over the past decade

Spectator World ^ | 11/17/2025 | Travis Aaroe

[Kleon]

Short answer: no.

[Texas Eagle]

I still believe 4chan, Q and Q Anon were constructs of Left-wing lunatics and the Fake News Media (but I repeat myself).

[dware]

No, and the Q nonsense has had a part in making us look like complete morons. Stop it. As bad as the leftists. Quit following along with a psyop. Buncha willful, woeful ignorance.

[mbrfl]

Qanon espoused a lot of truth interspersed with a lot of nonsense. What its purpose was, I don’t claim to know. Did it do more harm than good? History will decide.

[plain talk]

[aMorePerfectUnion]

Yes. Been a great road map years in advance.

[Fai Mao]

Me too

[Sicon]

The list of Q’s predictions goes on. That lockdown was probably folly.

PROBABLY?!!!

[gloryblaze]

“Obliquely” as in the fog of a crystal ball.

If you stare hard enough ...

[SaxxonWoods]

My main takeaway from Q was Gen Flynn after the election. Paraphrasing: “If you ask me who is going to be the president in January (2020), I’m telling you it’s going to be Donald Trump.”

Oops.

[TangoLimaSierra]

And it probably would have been Trump if the dems hadn’t created about 30 million bogus votes.

[SaxxonWoods]

This was AFTER the voting.

[sean_og]

I remember “Trust Pence.

[teeman8r]

I trust the plan.

[matthew fuller]

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[GOPJ]

Nor was it even especially strange.

Every classical republic has seen something like QAnon. Popular self-rule has always required an unreasoning, slightly lunatic faith in what can be achieved together – to overthrow tyranny, real or imagined and, more often than not, to make war on the entire world. “The best is yet to come,” as Q has often said. The average American patriot in 1776 thought that George III was a secret Catholic and probably the Antichrist. Romans of the early republic saw conspiracies everywhere – to bring back the line of kings, to open the city gates to the Sabines or to the Etruscans. The Parisian mob in the 1780s thought the nobles were plotting to starve them and then massacre them with Swiss mercenaries.

“Where we go one, we go all” has been one of QAnon’s most common refrains.

One might have heard something similar from Cromwell’s Ironsides. Or during the cannonade at Valmy. QAnon is simply popular sovereignty – a force never really seen before in America. Observed in theory, it has in practice always been mediated by a rigmarole of republican institutions, courts, checks, balances, “civility,” windbags like Walter Cronkite. Trump was the first person since 1945 to go over all their heads and appeal directly to “The People,” and it is with QAnon that the people arrive for the first time as a factor in American history.

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[roving]

Well, they did rescue Assange from the embassy and relocated him to Sweden. I will never forget when the Marines stormed the CIA building and took it over. Oh wait, those things never happened.

[NavyShoe]

What I got out of Q: 1. Don’t believe the mockingbird media, 2. Do your own research.

[GOPJ]

“Where we go one, we go all” has been one of QAnon’s most common refrains.

One might have heard something similar from Cromwell’s Ironsides. Or during the cannonade at Valmy. QAnon is simply popular sovereignty – a force never really seen before in America. Observed in theory, it has in practice always been mediated by a rigmarole of republican institutions, courts, checks, balances, “civility,” windbags like Walter Cronkite. Trump was the first person since 1945 to go over all their heads and appeal directly to “The People,” and it is with QAnon that the people arrive for the first time as a factor in American history.

FYI