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QAnon: When reality is just too much

"Reality is for people who can't handle drugs," according to an old hippie slogan from the '60s. Today I would update that line to say that reality is for people who can't handle conspiracy theories.

Back when Barack Obama was president, we saw the rise of "birthers," people who couldn't wrap their heads around the reality that the nation's first African-American president was a natural-born citizen.

One of them was Donald Trump, who in 2011

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