Remember the tea party?
Nine years ago, a grassroots movement of conservatives and others concerned about the economy and the big-government ideas being perpetrated by President Barack Obama sprang up across the country and helped Republicans take back the U.S. House of Representatives in 2010.
Democrats and the left never quite got it. They couldn’t understand why everyone didn’t take to the president’s ideas and why the country should be concerned about the bloating national debt, and they belittled the rise of the frustrated millions.
President Trump, as has been illustrated here and elsewhere, similarly exasperated the left. Its adherents couldn’t grasp how everyone wasn’t ready to lap up what Hillary Clinton was spouting, how eight years of an administration left most of Middle America disheartened, and how a blustery businessman and reality television host could say controversial things and still be accepted.
Jump to 2018 and the latest creation to confound Democrats. It’s “Q,” or QAnon, a unidentified person, movement or – perhaps – well-conceived prank that is ostensibly behind Trump and portends to have inside information about the federal government’s next moves, knowledge of what the Washington Times called “a worldwide criminal conspiracy involving special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation” and even a top-level security clearance.