He put the Q in QAnon, and now he’s ours?

As if Arizona hasn’t already taken enough of a beating, what with a phony audit, Kari Lake’s sledgehammer, Mark Brnovich’s nunchucks and, well, everything Paul Gosar, now comes the ultimate indignity.

Ron Watkins, the guy who reportedly put the Q in QAnon, apparently is moving to Arizona to run for Congress — or possibly just to grift some serious cash from his supporters.

Watkins was reportedly last living in Japan but has been running around Arizona of late, no doubt drawn, like a moth to flame, by the election audit.

“I have decided to double down with God as my compass to take this fight to the swamp of Washington, D.C.,” he announced on Thursday, in a cringeinducing video shot in front the Arizona Attorney General’s Office and posted to Telegram.

With all due respect (meaning: none), Ron. Couldn’t you double down in some other state?

Surely, Arizona has suffered enough.

For nearly a year, we’ve endured hysterics over the fact that Joe Biden won the state. From vote-stealing Sharpies to ballot eating “green buttons” to clueless ninja auditors, this state has slogged through embarrassment after embarrassment.

We already are home to Rep. Paul Gosar, who, when he’s not playing footsie with white nationalists, is extolling the “peaceful patriots” who stormed the nation’s Capitol on Jan. 6.

We already have Kari Lake, a local TV news-anchor-turned-Trumpette who struts around with her trusty sledgehammer bashing the media and hoping it’ll carry her into the Governor’s Office.

We already have state Republican Party Chairwoman Kelli Ward, the state’s original and indefatigable MAGA queen, and state Sen. Wendy Rogers, who finally found somebody to elect her to something and is now on a 50-state quest to decertify the presidential election. And Rep. Mark Finchem, a prominent conspiracy theorist who is hoping to become secretary of state next year so he can oversee the 2024 elections.

On Friday morning, we awoke to a video of Attorney General Mark Brnovich showing off his nunchuck moves, a painful demonstration of his qualifications to represent us in the United States Senate.

And now, Ron Watkins.

Apparently, he’s moving from Japan to the Grand Canyon state to challenge three-term Democratic Rep. Tom O’Halleran, or as Watkins called him, “the dirtiest Democrat in the D.C. swamp.”

Watkins already has endorsed Lake for governor and former Attorney Gen

eral Tom Horne, who is hoping for a political comeback as state superintendent after having been been ousted by Brnovich in 2014.

The fact that either of them would find this guy’s endorsement helpful speaks volumes to where the Arizona Republican Party is headed these days.

Watkins is reportedly the mastermind behind the QAnon movement. Though he has denied that he is Q, this is the guy who ran the 8chan message board that spread the anonymous Q’s cryptic conspiracy theories. These are people who see Donald Trump as a messiah and Democrats as a cabal of Satan-worshipping pedophiles who sex-traffick children from the basement of a Washington, D.C., pizza parlor that has no basement.

So yeah, why not run for Congress and where better than Arizona, where it has, sadly, become perfectly acceptable to spread kooky conspiracy theories in order to get a footing on the poliltical food chain?

I mourn for my beautiful, beloved state. We already we have our own homegrown, over-the-edge, full-on off-their-rocker whack jobs.

And now, Ron Watkins.

“President Trump had his election stolen not just in Arizona but in other states, too,” he tells us. “We must now take this fight to Washington, D.C.”

“If we don’t follow our beliefs and the founding principles of our nation,” he tells us, “it will crumble! This must stop now! Therefore, I have decided to double down ...” blah blah blah, yeah, we know.

Why us, world? Why is it always us?