The first line shows that: "Many have concluded QAnon was a Deep State intelligence operation to lull Trump supporters into complacency in the runup to the 2020 election and to provide a new pejorative term for the Left to use against the Right."
Many? Many who? Deep State op? Any proof for those claims?
American Thinker apparently isn't smart enough to separate Q's posts, not a Deep State op, with the infiltration and subversion of the Q movement, a Deep State op.
Funny how these critiques of Q never address or look at the legitimacy of the posts themselves, and they seem to forget all the Trump connecting proofs and subtle (or not so subtle) promotion of Q related content by President Trump.
You can tell when people don't do their homework on this subject.
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2023/05/qanon_20.html
This is kind of like the term "Fake News" that in late 2016 was drummed up by the major media to discredit the Podesta WikiLeaks exposure.
Trump took hold of it and labeled the mainstream media "Fake News" .
So Q and FBI Anon were dropping tidbits around the same time. The media needed a soundbite to discredit Q and so used the term "QAnon" to label folks with a pajorative.
This new term worked to identify the false flag "QAnon" operatives by the use of the term.
The "QAnon Shaman" was probably an operative. He worked with many shady folks like Alice Kennedy (pseudonym) and was a paid voice actor with an alias. The same could be said of his associate the "QAnon Hobbit" seen in many pictures with the "Shaman". The hobbit was also a voice actor on voices.com.
Seems that voice acting was a prerequisite of the operators.