Arresting Donald Trump will only strengthen the conspiracists
Five years after QAnon was born, the idea of a corrupt deep state persecuting its enemies is in the mainstream of Republican politics.
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Gabriel Gatehouse is international editor of Newsnight, and host of BBC Radio 4's The Coming Storm.
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