If 1 Republican believing in Q anon conspiracies taints the entire group, then I get to label every Democrat as unfit for office because Hank Johnson thinks Guam will tip over with too many military forces on it.
He’s saying that I can’t say the 2016 and 2020 election conspiracy theories are comparable at their core due to the arguments made by other people that are not me. Since he’s attacking the claims of others as a basis for attacking my claim, he’s attacking a straw man he constructed for me. It would be one thing to say “At their core, the arguments/beliefs are the same, but they differ in the details,” but saying “They’re not comparable at all because of how different some people take the 2020 claims to the extreme” is a silly straw man.