A few days ago Morning Consult released a poll showing that 18% of American adults believed in QAnon's conspiracy theories. Shazam! That might be down a bit from previous polls, but 18% is still a lot. It's one out of six Americans.
Except that if you read closely, that was 18% "among all adults who had heard of the group." It turns out that two-thirds of adults have never even heard of QAnon, which means Morning Consult's chart should have looked approximately like this:
When people read about this stuff, the chart is all that a lot of them are going to see. They won't read the accompanying text at all, let alone read it carefully. They'll just take a quick glance and come away thinking that Americans are nuts.
But a proper chart shows that only 6% of adults think QAnon is even "somewhat" accurate. And only 2% think it's very accurate. That's really not much. I imagine that 6% of American adults are unsure if we really landed on the moon. And you could get 2% of Americans to believe that the country is run by a secret cabal from Botswana.
Bottom line: We are not QAnon Nation. In fact, QAnon barely has a foothold in the American psyche at all.
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