Vox has an interesting piece on the future of QAnon as described by journalists and researchers who have covered and studied the group. While the entire article makes fascinating reading, here is a crystallization of the experts’ thinking:

• QAnon should be thought of as a religion, not a political movement.
• Its religiosity enables it to survive, despite its prophesies failing to materialize.
• To the QAnon devout, Q’s true identity does not matter.
• The recent purging of QAnon believers from mainstream social media has reinforced their self-perception as persecuted renegades.
• Democratic lawmakers should be careful about framing the GOP as the “QAnon party” because it could drive the GOP deeper into the fringes.
• Violent extremists are actively working to radicalize QAnon believers for their own purposes.
• Even in the absence of Trump and regular messages from Q, the tagalong theories — 5G, vaccines and alternative medicine — represent significant risks to the public.