If the big lie no longer works then explain QAnon going from a 4chan meme to a cult and political force strong enough to win seats in government and fuel an insurrection, and why half of the United States still believes Donald Trump really won a second term.

It seems to me like it works better than it ever has.

QAnon wasn't created an popularized by some institution repeating a lie. It isn't even propaganda per se, it's a grass roots conspiracy theory, fanned by propaganda on certain particular facts (such as election fraud). It's the result of decades of bigger and smaller lies and truths being spun by various forces until they coalesced into this mess. There isn't some central Big Lie that QAnon believers have been fed, except perhaps the oldest lie - it's Us vs Them, and We are righteous while They are evil.

"Q" wrote his initial lies once, and people ate it up and spun it around among themselves. This is folklore, not propaganda.

> half of the United States still believes Donald Trump really won a second term

The polls I've seen show between 67%-80% accepting the result as correct; none support anything like half believing Trump won.

Irrational overreaction? I've posted elsewhere that I vote R but I had never heard of Qanon until the left started freaking out about it and made it news.