Link , Link , Link , Link , Link , [As Republicans are poised to block an investigation into the attempted insurrection on January 6, the conspiracy theories that funneled many of the rioters’ participation is continuing to swell to new levels of popularity in the U.S. QAnon, a bizarre and fluid whirlpool of misinformation and delusions, can no longer be considered a “fringe” belief. A new study from Public Religion Research Institute and the Interfaith Youth Core found that around 14 percent of Americans believe in the tenants of QAnon. That comes out to around 30 million people, roughly the same number of Americans who identify as white evangelical Protestants. Speaking of white evangelicals, they are the most likely religious demographic to believe in QAnon. The PRRI report found one in four white evangelicals believe in what it identified as the three core beliefs of QAnon.], Link , Link , [Can these three theses be acted on? Why not? Couldn’t this be a moment when entrepreneurs could bring supply, demand, and the moment together in the political marketplace to create an expanded pro-democracy, governing majority party. With entrepreneurship and leadership on all fronts—in politics and policy, among the public and among elites—this doesn’t seem an impossible task. The alternative is to remain mired in a kind of political liquidity trap where the political market will equilibrate at a place that is suboptimal for democracy. Or, to end with Lincoln rather than Keynes: “The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew, and act anew. We must disenthrall ourselves, and then we shall save our country.”]