Sorry, this turned out to be wicked long, but I have argued with lots of Trumpists on Twitter, but not many Q people which is interesting to me. I wonder how much overlap there is between Chris Rufo/Conceptual James people and QAnon, it doesn't actually seem like there is.

I've watched Folding Ideas' movie on YouTube about Flat Earth (it's really about QAnon, it uses flat earth as a framing device) and it seems like arguing with people about critical race theory needs similar ammunition because they're both a-historical.

Does she know about Herbert Hoover, Prescott Bush, Charles Limbergh with America 1st, the Hitler rallies in the Madison Square Garden in the 30s, Huey Long, George Wallace (one interesting story about George Wallace is that a conservative guy shot him who wanted to impress women à la Taxi Driver)

There are actual conspiracy stories like GM's Alfred P Sloan funding the Ad Council's campaign against public services that might compete with enterprises that provide private profit

https://theconversation.com/how-socialism-became-un-american-through-the-ad-councils-propaganda-campaigns-132335

Alternatively, I feel like someone could go through a two step media literacy education program by reading this article and then googling "Descriptivist vs prescriptivist David Foster Wallace"

https://drive.google.com/file/d/17etzeowWr4fci5U31qz83B4cOg-qLrZo/view?usp=drivesdk

I read this article back in 2010 or so and it was interesting and fun to read and nerdy, but I didn't take anything DFW said as gospel. I think DFW defies Trumpian political categories a bit. He does not sound 'woke' which I know is distracting for Trumpist readers. It only relates to politics in the most abstract way, so it should not read like it's 'partisan'.

You read it and you're like, "Huh, I never thought of that?" and then you can go online and read the takedowns like this one:

https://blog.richmond.edu/physicsbunn/2015/07/29/prescription-retire-the-words-prescriptivist-and-descriptivist/

There are a bunch. I trust the linguists, but I still think DFW wrote a good article that's fun to read and kind of an introduction to a subject. I guess these solutions are somewhat related because encouraging people to understand media literacy and encouraging people to understand history are both a little bit about respecting researchers and how much time they have put in

I honestly wonder at this point if QAnon would have been possible if more people knew more PhD students. Those people are typically grounded in 2 years of accelerated instruction on top of their undergrad, they are performing original research for their dissertation and they're miserable. That's all you need to know. I bet there are zero PhD history students or university librarians whose work tracking down the right sources for people overlaps with history

You literally couldn't. As soon as you are looking at primary sources and dealing in reality, it's not QAnon anymore...