CNN on Wednesday aired what was ostensibly a segment about the evils of QAnon. But watching it the whole way through, viewers would realize it was more precisely a story about how economic lockdowns, championed by Democrats, have wreaked havoc on the minds of ordinary people.

Ashley Vanderbilt, the mother of a 4-year-old daughter in South Carolina, told CNN that she’s never been a news consumer but that she came across political videos on social media during the early days of the 2020 campaign. They convinced her that with President Biden’s election, “We’re all gonna die. We’re going to be owned by China.” (That hasn’t happened, but there’s still time.)