That Qanon has crossed the Atlantic, and found adherents in Germany and the U.K. is probably no surprise - as Howard acknowledged. What’s disconcerting is that when we read of developments like the current one in Germany, we get a glimpse of the pervasiveness of what we might have once considered crackpot (and thus ‘harmless’) conspiracies and the dangers the extreme right poses for democracies - and not just fragile ones.
I understand Stoa’s main scare being the involvement of military or ex-military personnel. My main scare is the extent to which, worldwide, the tentacles of the far right take hold and the insidious role of social media groups.