Crash Course: QAnon's weirdest obsession: Why does the radical far right fear the Masons?

Anti-Masonic prejudice goes back to the Nazis — and well before that. Somehow the QAnon cult has reanimated it [View in browser](~/AASU4wA~/RgRmvI49P0REaHR0cHM6Ly9saW5rLndoZXJlYnkudXMvdjFic3p4bGRlYi8_bGhfYWlkPTM1NDM5NTImbGhfY2lkPXE1bGRhcHo2cWRXA3NwY0IKZNM-Cdpk0lkNGVIbdHJpc3RyYW1iYWxkd2luODVAZ21haWwuY29tWAQAAAAo) Your daily update from [Salon](~/AASU4wA~/RgRmvI49P0RoaHR0cHM6Ly9saW5rLndoZXJlYnkudXMvdXo3eWh4dDk0OC8_bGhfYWlkPTM1NDM5NTImbGhfY2lkPXE1bGRhcHo2cWQmbGhfZW09dHJpc3RyYW1iYWxkd2luODUlNDBnbWFpbC5jb21XA3NwY0IKZNM-Cdpk0lkNGVIbdHJpc3RyYW1iYWxkd2luODVAZ21haWwuY29tWAQAAAAo). QAnon's weirdest obsession: Why does the radical far right fear the Masons? Why would a purportedly churchgoing, God-fearing Texas patriot pray for the violent destruction of such American landmarks? Because he and thousands of other evangelicals believe they were secretly constructed by Freemasons, who are essentially Satanists, and therefore must be obliterated. 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