The theories seem crazy to Ms. Perron now, but looking back, she understands how they drew her in. For Ms. Perron, it was a feeling that the Democratic Party had betrayed her after a lifetime of trusting it deeply. As an inspector for the insurance industry, she spent decades in factories seeing union jobs wither. “He put into words what I couldn’t figure out but I was seeing around me,” said Ms. Perron, who is now 55. Her stunned discovery enraged her and put her on the path to conspiracy theories and, eventually, QAnon.

Source: New York Times January 29, 2021 10:01 UTC