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A Fake Conspiracy for Our Fevered Age
Child-sex trafficking. Pizza. Social media. In a crazy way, it all fits together.
Be very afraid.
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Walk in to Comet Ping Pong, a neighborhood restaurant about two miles from the White House, and you don’t think," Satanic den." You think, "How long will I have to wait to get a table," and "Geez, there are a lot of kids in here."
Comet may be a family pizzeria in a leafy neighborhood but it’s still in Washington in a political year. And that was enough to turn this hole-in-the-wall into an obsession of the alt-right, a loose collection of white nationalists and sympathizers who have ardently supported President-elect Donald Trump.