I live in an extremely red area. I never had anyone talk to me about his or her belief in "QAnon." Did you? I only encountered people like Jim talking about it incessantly. It took me about a year and a half of Jim blustering about it before I finally asked someone what it was. I correctly deduced that it was a boogeyman, or, as Chris spells when in a Brit phase, "bogeyman." Sort of like "whinging."