They did so even after a Democratic colleague was targeted with death threats by the conspiracy’s followers a few days earlier
The U.S. Capitol Dome. Photo: Samuel Corum/Getty Images A bipartisan resolution formally condemning QAnon passed with overwhelming support in the House on Friday, though 17 Republicans voted against the measure, unwilling to reject the deranged conspiracy movement that President Trump has helped amplify and that will almost certainly find a voice in Congress come November.
The resolution, which Malinowski co-authored, “condemns QAnon and rejects the conspiracy theories it promotes” as well as “all other groups and ideologies, from the far left to the far right, that contribute to the spread of unfounded conspiracy theories and that encourage Americans to destroy public and private property and attack law enforcement officers.
The once-fringe group has emerged from the dark corners of the internet, where it began in 2017, onto center stage in conservative politics. There will be 24 QAnon candidates on the federal ballot next month, all but two of them Republicans. Most of them don’t stand a chance at winning. But Marjorie Taylor Greene, a vocal QAnon proponent who has earned Trump’s praise, was all but guaranteed a Congressional seat in August after winning a Republican primary runoff in her deep-red Georgia district.
Despite the fact that the FBI has flagged QAnon as a potential domestic terror threat, Trump has said that he appreciates the support of its followers — who he called “people that love our country” — and has repeatedly amplified the movement’s conspiracies on social media.
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