It’s been three and a half years since insurrectionists stormed the US Capitol, convinced that a shadowy cabal of satanic paedophiles had stolen the election from Donald Trump. In season one of The Coming Storm, the investigative journalist Gabriel Gatehouse uncovered the roots of QAnon, exposing an “epidemic of disorientation” in America that began as a hoax on an obscure web forum, incubated by a climate of anxiety and powerlessness in the age of globalisation, which millions across the world now believe.
In the approach to November 2024, a presidential election in which some warn democracy itself is on the ballot, The Coming Storm is back to take the temperature of America. And things are even weirder. This time, Gatehouse is looking not just at QAnon, but at how conspiratorial thinking has broken into the mainstream. Covid lockdowns, the Federal Reserve, the Trump assassination attempt – it’s all a deep-state plot. Open your eyes, join the dots, and go through the looking glass.
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