847 NAMES. 209 NATIONS. ONE MOMENT.
This reminds me of a quote from a speech delivered to the Ohio County Republican Women's Club in Wheeling, West Virginia, on February 9, 1950. The speaker was the Republican Senator from Wisconsin, Joseph R. McCarthy:
"I have here in my hand a list of 205 — a list of names that were made known to the Secretary of State as being members of the Communist Party and who nevertheless are still working and shaping policy in the State Department."
The next day, speaking in Salt Lake City, McCarthy claimed he had a list of fifty-seven (the number kept changing) such Communists in the State Department.
https://www.zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/mccarthy-red-scare/
Of course, there was no list. McCarthy had nothing but lies. And there's little chance that the crackpots pushing Q-flavored conspiracy theories today will have any real world effect at all. But the parallels of gullibility and paranoia are certainly interesting.