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Forward Kentucky: QAnon — a recycled conspiracy theory spreading through the GOP

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By BERRY CRAIG

QAnon fan and former state representative C. Wesley Morgan came up way short against Sen. Mitch McConnell in the June GOP primary, but Marjorie Taylor Green, a Georgia Republican and another QAnon devotee, is on her way to Congress.

Meanwhile, the president’s defeat is shaking the faith of some others who buy into the bogus, bizarre, pro-Trump QAnon conspiracy theory that’s firing up far-right-wing internet fringies.

According to QAanon, a secret cabal of rich and powerful “Deep State” Democrats and their allies, including Hollywood stars and movie moguls — read Jews — are kidnapping kids and using their blood for satanic rituals. It’s warmed-over anti-Semitism, according to Murray State University historian David Pizzo.

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