"Sorry but that is baloney. Qanon is the results of crazy right wing radio and TV pushing conspiracy theories"

Firstly there is a difference between why it was created, why it was promoted, and why it was able to gain a foothold. Somebody posted an amazing BBC video about its origins maybe a month ago. It's not what you think. Required 15 minutes of your life to watch it so I understand that a lot of people couldn't sacrifice the time between rushing to post here. But you're completely off base as to why it was able to gain a foothold, and why Trump was able to gain traction among more reasonable people early on in his 2016 campaign. It wasn't about his dog whistle racist policies. Sure that was enough to exclude him from consideration by people who were never going to vote for him anyway, but it was the decades long bipartisan indifference to truly addressing the needs of working people who found themselves increasingly unable to improve their lives through hard work. Republicans may have always been pretty open about their contempt for the working class, by deed if not so much by word, but Democrats were always pre-loaded with excuses and scapegoats for why they couldn't achieve more than a modicum of assistance. Trump came in from outside and was the first person to talk about that. Remember in one of the 2016 primary debates where he talked about how he made campaign contributions to both Democrats and Republicans because he knew when they did they would take his call? None but a very few in politics ever spoke to the people that way. I'm not saying that his reasons for doing that weren't disingenuous, but millions of people in this country are, and have been for a long time, desperate for something to fundamentally change. For those people I can have a degree of sympathy; people in a tight spot often make bad choices. Flippantly writing off the reasons behind their bad choices will forever exclude your arguments from their further consideration. That's not what you want, that's not what any of us want, so I plead with you to reconsider your approach.

"Is this the video you mean?"

Yes.

"I agree it wasn't just his racist dog whistling that made Trump attractive, but I think his appeal goes beyond a desire for economic opportunity/security as well."

I'm not suggesting otherwise, but taking away those for whom Trump's economic rhetoric were the only reason they supported him, people who skeptical about his racist rhetoric, and you have a President HRC.