America Is Letting Paranoia Win

The spread of QAnon and other conspiracy theories shows how easily people turn to superstition and panic when the world falls apart

Jude Ellison S. Doyle
GEN
Published in
6 min readSep 17, 2020

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Our baseline state is fear. This fall, as the Halloween decorations are starting to come out, the news feels like a nightmare from which we can’t wake up: The West Coast is blanketed by a…

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Jude Ellison S. Doyle
GEN
Writer for

Author of “Trainwreck” (Melville House, ‘16) and “Dead Blondes and Bad Mothers” (Melville House, ‘19). Columns published far and wide across the Internet.