on how many i don t want to use the word legitimate, but how many elected republicans are swimming around in sort of the same toxic sludge on truth social when it comes to the qanon accounts? the qanon accounts, i would say, it s not that many people. but they all have to play to that base. you can t ignore them. you can t run over them. you can t pretend like they are not part of the situation. there are people who have tried to do that, and their names are liz cheney and adam kinzinger. so, like, those are the two people and they are no longer really part of the party anymore. i do want to add, you guys were talking about the 5% of the country thing. yeah. the three percenters, you know, the people who stormed the capitol, they are based on the notion that they believe, which is not true, only 3% of people in the united states participated in the revolution against the british, so when they say 1776 again, that s what
much allowed on that platform. it s important to remember, one of the first people to get through on january 6th, the person who sort of led the charge, was in a qanon shirt that day, because he thought he was seeing the storm. he thought he was, you know, it was all about to happen. he thought he was about to see people hanged, and he thought he was about to see the takeover of the government. that s what this is about. you know, one way or another, you don t have to believe in q to believe that the government needs to be taken over with pro-trump militias or other, like you just said, monarchist-style beliefs that donald trump is the very last president of the united states. in these spaces, pro-trump spaces, qanon spaces, they call him gotus, stands for god emperor of the united states. they view him as like a deity in these spaces, as a sort of last resort, their last ability to get back a culture that they have they believe they have lost that s largely based on white supremacy.
are following this movement right now? well, i don t know much about the movement, other than i understand they like me very much. which i appreciate. i ve heard these are people that love our country. disavow qanon in its entirety? i know nothing about qanon. i just told you. i know very little. you told me, but what you tell me doesn t necessarily make it fact. i hate to say that. i know nothing about it. i do know they are very much against pedophilia. they fight it very hard. but i know nothing about it. they believe it is a satanic cult run by the deep state. i tell you what i do know about. i know about antifa and i know about the radical left, and i know how violent they are and how vicious they are. so, now, just over two months away from the midterm elections, what is before us is more than an alarming contrast between two major political parties as seen through the actions of their leaders. we are now asking questions we have not had to ask before.
they mean. they believe you don t need that many people to have a successful coup or uprising or revolution in the united states. that s the whole point of this for groups like the oath keepers, and three percenters and the qanon people. they are not interested in majority rule. they are interested in fighting. they want desperately to fight a ground war in the united states to keep their guy in power, and that s where this is all headed, and i think that s, you know, sounding the alarm today is very important. ben collins, thank you for your reporting on all this. i m really grateful that you do it and that you take the time to come and talk to us about it. alexi, matt and cornell stick around. when we come back, matthew has compiled a list of the top candidates who pose the most danger to our constitutional democracy. we ll go through all of them. they re some of the biggest election deniers who spread some of the most insidious conspiracy theories, and alarmingly, they also have a
yeah, he has about 4 million followers on truth social. it s very hard to use that website, by the way. it s not an easy thing to do. so, people really have to seek him out and find him. the goal of the website, by the way, is to do exactly what we re all doing today, screen shot it, send around the worst stuff that he said. for him, what he has to do, he has to keep ratcheting up the rhetoric to get news coverage on other sites, so reporters screen shot him, put him on twitter or facebook or whatever. but today, unfortunately, you kind of had to do that. for example, he posted a momentum that said, russia is not the enemy with the words the enemy over kamala harris s eyes and pointing to nancy pelosi and joe biden as well. he posted overt qanon material about the storm, which is the imagined day that, you know, the deep state, hillary clinton, barack obama will be rounded up and executed in public. you know, that s where this is headed. this is a very dark space for