One of the curiosities about conspiracy theories is that they usually start with some nugget of fact. For example, among other things, the QAnon crowd believe that there's a gaggle of Democratic pedophiles that traffic children. As someone who's taught Human Sexuality for over two decades, the research is clear that the typical pedophile is a married heterosexual male with low social skills and children of his own, and those males can be of any political stripe, be they Democrat or Republican or Wiccan, so I have no doubt that a percentage of pedophiles would be Democrats. That said, there's far more evidence that Republicans are more likely to be sex offenders, just like there's easily verifiable evidence that compared to Democrats, it's Republican Presidents who explode the national debt and decrease the value of the stock market, it's members of Republican Administrations who are tried and convicted of a wide variety of crimes, and it's Republicans polit