Improvements in the welfare of children will deprive QAnon of the widespread social insecurity that allows extremist lies to grow. Combatting QAnon will require building a country where rumors that the government is harming children have no basis in fact.
Author: Emily Yates-Doerr
Emily Yates-Doerr is an assistant professor of anthropology at Oregon State University and the University of Amsterdam. She is a 2020-2021 Wenner-Gren Hunt Fellow, currently writing a book on motherhood in Guatemala and the United States.
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