Triumph of the Shill: Q the Music
MAGA Cult rally gets a new soundtrack. All they're missing now is Leni Riefenstahl to film it
London may have The Queue. But America has The Q. While London’s Queue ended with the Queen’s funeral, Americas Q lingers forever, sustained in symbiotic relationship with Donald J. Trump.
Last night in Youngstown, Ohio, at his latest rinky-dink pastiche of Hitler’s Nuremberg Rallies, Trump tapped into Q’s greatest hits to give his low-energy litany of grievances some extra emotional oomph.
Aaron Rupar, live Tweeting the event, made note of the madness, without identifying the music (thread)
But by this afternoon the crack reporters of The New York Times had nailed it.
The ditty that was pumped through the sound system to add some emotional lift to Trump’s sing-song whining drone, goes by the catchy title, “Wwg1wga” Weird title, I know. It’s an acronym of the QAnon motto—”Where we go one, we go all.”
If that sounds familiar, it should. It’s a clean lift from The Three Musketeers (without royalties to Alexander Dumas)—Tous pour un, un pour tous—All for one, and one for all.
For those just tuning in, QAnon may be the most bonkers of the fringe conspiracy cults haunting the land in this our season of national dissolution. (If you need a primer on QAnon, head over to Wikipedia. We’ll be here when you get back.)
A Trump spokesperson insisted that “Wwg1wga” is not what they played. What they played was some other tune that just happened to sound like “Wwg1wga.” It happened to sound so much like the Q anthem that the crowd responded—on cue—with the Q salute—one finger raised in the air. (No, not that finger.)
And if that isn’t Nazi enough for you, Trump even threw in his own version of, Hitler’s “Ein Volk, Ein Reich, Ein Führer!” In Trumpanese that translates to “One Movement, One People, One Family, One Glorious American Nation.”
(Pro Tip: The rhythm of three is stronger than the rhythm of four. Hitler knew this. Trump hasn’t caught on. Stick with the rhythm of three. It works in rhetoric. It works in PowerPoint. It works in standup.)
Before getting too carried away with the Nuremberg comparison, however, let’s remember that Hitler drew this crowd:
And all Trump had was this one:
