Turns out Epstein was working with Bannon to set up a 'populist' movement. Bannon is well known to be the architect behind Trump's 'economic nationalism' movement. Epstein was also friends with the founder of 4chan, the place where Q originated.
Myself, I am off the Trump train but not off the Q train (yet). If Q would have stayed on 4chan I would have reached the inevitable conclusion that Q was a psy op cooked up by Epstein and Bannon, but Q moved very quickly to 8chan stating that 4chan was compromised.
I now view the Q posts as a warning. Q chose autists, most of whom were gamers, on 4chan/8chan to become 'digital soldiers'. This kind of weaponized autism was highly effective because these autists were very adept at scouring the bowels of the web to connect dots that weren't previously connected.
However, there was also a risk involved with enlisting autistic gamers. They were all socially awkward people with adolescent Call of Duty fantasies fed by their addiction to gaming. This made them highly vulnerable to right-wing fascism, which is why they are now still living in a partisan bubble backing and defending Trump's every whim.
In my view, the Q op is a deprogramming operation. The final deprogramming phase, which will unite We The People in a class war, is the realization that being stuck in a racist culture war is the very thing that keeps us from being united. "They want you divided". "Patriots have no skin color". This means the end goal of the Q op is to alienate Q followers from the Trump/Bannon/Epstein fascist police state instead of embracing it.
MAGA is for broken people. Most of them will have to learn the hard way. The end is not for everyone.
Mike