Wariness of predators and enemy tribes was once a survival trait. Paranoid schizophrenia, with delusions of persecution and grandeur, is not. So we must take outbreaks of paranoia-like delusion, like Trumpists and even Qanon, seriously, but without demonization.
We don't want to fall into their trap, treating them as an all-powerful and demonic evil against whom only an equally paranoid and antidemocratic Savior would be needed, as in the days of the Marxist/Leninist/Stalinist/Trotskyist/Maoist/etc.ist Loony Left, or before them the Masons and the Bavarian Illuminati and many others. No. We want a competent President who will put the General Welfare and the Blessings of Liberty and such first. So far, so good, especially if we can make good on the Senate runoffs in Georgia.
Naturally, the paranoia brigade is wholly up in arms about the imminent Biden/Harris Soshulist tyranny!!! Tyranny! I tellz ya! while the Q Discontinuity yammers on about pedophilia and cannibalism and the new Golden Age that we can usher in merely by putting them in charge, without any pesky notions of civil rights for anyone else.
In his essay The Paranoid Style in American Politics Richard Hofstadter called attention to the way such outbreaks have recurred throughout US history, noting also its prevalence throughout recorded history around the world, most notably among Nazis and among Soviet Communists, peaking under Stalin. His experience at the time ran up to Barry Goldwater, and he could not predict Trump and Q. But he did predict much about their views and their methods. In particular, he could see this as the future course of the Republican Party under the malign influences of such as the John Birch Society, segregationists, and the Religious Wrong (my phrase, not his). They drove out the moderates over two generations, after Goldwater broke the back of "practical Conservatism", the kind that would be willing to negotiate with its political rivals and abide by Supreme Court rulings.