OK, Groomers (Pt. 1)

A wandering look at the Dissident Right's new weapon in the culture wars

1. In the Beginning there was Pizzagate

Most scholars agree the madness began on October 28, 2017, when a man who called himself Q Clearance Patriot posted a thread entitled “Calm Before the Storm” on 4chan’s /pol/, a swamp more fetid than anything the Everglades has to offer. But before Q there was Pizzagate, a 2016 child sex trafficking scandal that …