Carlson in a segment of his show Monday began by criticising a bill proposed by Democratic Rep. Stephanie Murphy, which would ban QAnon adherents from accessing security clearance or classified information.
He mocked journalists for not treating Chinese hegemony or elite mismanagement of the economy as key issues facing America, instead claiming in Carlson s telling that the real threat is a forbidden idea, something called QAnon.
Read more: We re watching a profound change taking place in American society, and it s happening very fast, he continued. The stakes could not be higher. There s a clear line between democracy and tyranny, between self-government and dictatorship. And here s what that line is. That line is your conscience. They cannot cross that.
Some adherents of the QAnon mass delusion have reacted with sadness and disappointment after coming to terms with a false "prophecy" around Joe Biden's inauguration.