Our book, Divided We Stand, looks at the 2020 election and the January 6 insurrection. Some Republican leaders -- and a measurable number of rank-and-file voters -- are open to violent rebellion, coups, and secession.
The man accused of breaking into House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s California home and severely beating her husband with a hammer appears to have made racist and often rambling posts online, including some that questioned the results of the 2020 election, defended former President Donald Trump and echoed QAnon conspiracy theories.
David DePape, 42, grew up in Powell River, British Columbia, before leaving about 20 years ago to follow an older girlfriend to San Francisco. A street address listed for DePape in the Bay Area college town of Berkeley led to a post office box at a UPS Store.
...
A pair of web blogs posted in recent months online under the name David DePape contained rants about technology, aliens, communists, religious minorities, transexuals and global elites.
An Aug. 24 entry titled “Q,” displayed a scatological collection of memes that included photos of the deceased sex offender Jeffrey Epstein and made reference to QAnon, the baseless pro-Trump conspiracy theory that espouses the belief that the country is run by a deep state cabal of child sex traffickers, satanic pedophiles and baby-eating cannibals.
WWG1WGA means "Where We Go One, We Go All" - the QAnon slogan. Trump has quoted it before:Former President Donald J. Trump issued the following statement after the violent attack on Paul Pelosi: pic.twitter.com/SM56NATFOt
— George Conway🌻 (@gtconway3d) October 29, 2022
His embrace of QAnon has become more explicit in recent months.Former President Donald J. Trump issued the following statement after the violent attack on Paul Pelosi: pic.twitter.com/SM56NATFOt
— George Conway🌻 (@gtconway3d) October 29, 2022
