Two House Republicans who have promoted the QAnon conspiracy theory are returning to Washington.
U.S. Reps. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) and Lauren Boebert (R-Colo.) beat out their Democratic opponents in Novembers midterm elections although Boeberts race was much tighter than anticipated.
Both will be sworn into office this week or whenever the House elects a speaker.
Their fellow QAnon-linked candidates on ballots across the country didnt fare as well in Novembers elections. Twenty-seven candidates for Congress, governor or secretary of state with links to the conspiracy movement were defeated.
HuffPost used extensive research by Media Matters , the liberal media watchdog group, for its tally of QAnon-linked candidates. Of the 29 candidates in this tally, 23 are Republicans, five are independents, and one is a Democrat.
Although few in this QAnon caucus were victorious, the presence of so many of these candidates on the ballot is still a five-alarm fire for American democracy.
The QAnon conspiracy theory is an anti-democratic, authoritarian fantasy that imagines a globalist or deep state cabal of Satan-worshiping pedophiles many prominent Democrats among them who will soon be arrested en masse, and possibly executed, by former President Donald Trump.
During his presidency Trump more than played footsie with QAnon supporters, repeatedly refusing to denounce the movement. Since leaving the White House, however, Trump has openly embraced QAnon, often sharing the movements memes on Truth Social .
Meanwhile Boebert and Greene, who were first elected in 2020 after expressing support for QAnon, and who went on to be two of Trumps most sycophantic supporters in Congress, have publicly traded blows over who should be the next Speaker of the House.
At a Turning Point USA conference in Phoenix, Boebert lashed out at Greene for supporting current House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (Calif.) for speaker.
Ive been aligned with Marjorie and accused of believing a lot of the things that she believes in, Boebert said. I dont believe in this just like I dont believe in ... Jewish space lasers, she added, referring to one of Greenes most widely-mocked statements.
Greene responded by accusing Boebert of stirring up high school drama in the House, and noting that Boebert barely won reelection.
Ive supported and donated to Lauren Boebert. President Trump has supported and donated to Lauren Boebert. Kevin McCarthy has supported and donated to Lauren Boebert. She just barely came through by 500 votes, Greene tweeted.
Boebert won reelection in Colorados 3rd Congressional District after a recount, earning only 50.06% of the vote. Polls had initially predicted that shed trounce her Democratic opponent Adam Frisch.
Boebert has appeared on multiple QAnon shows and podcasts, including a 2020 episode in which she was asked if she was familiar with the Q movement. Boebert responded that she was very familiar and added that she hoped the QAnon prophecy was true because it only means America is getting stronger and better.
After backlash, Boebert later claimed that she was not part of the movement, but added that QAnon can mean lot of different things to different people.
Greene, who represents Georgias 14th Congressional District, comfortably won reelection in November. She repeatedly promoted QAnon on social media before first being elected to office in 2020. She also once posted a video in which she gushed about Q, the anonymous poster on 4Chan and other online forums who claims to have high-level security clearance in the government, and who routinely posted cryptic prophecies about when Trump would commence the storm and vanquish his enemies.
Greene called Q a patriot and worth listening to.
She later also attempted to distance herself from the QAnon conspiracy movement, telling Fox News that Q had led her astray with misinformation about the 2018 midterm elections.
She has nevertheless found herself in a position to extract promises from Republican leadership in the House.
Multiple outlets have reported that Greene who, beyond promoting QAnon, was the featured speaker at a white supremacist conference earlier this year was being considered for congressional leadership positions in the new House.
This is the likely explanation for her public support of McCarthy, who is considering Greene for a coveted position on the House Oversight Committee, according to Axios . Greene has also reportedly received a promise from Republican leadership that they would launch an investigation into the federal governments treatment of defendants jailed for their alleged role with the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol.
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