How Cass Sunstein, a liberal scholar of conspiracy theories, became the subject of a right-wing conspiracy theory. Meet “The Storm”, the conspiracy theory taking over the pro-Trump Internet. Here’s the latest stupid conservative conspiracy theory. Conspiracy theory: These accidental missile alerts aren’t actually accidents — world governments are doing trial runs on their own citizens. Release the Memo: What’s the conspiracy behind the right-wing meme? Republicans claim a secret document reveals a Hillary Clinton plot “worse than Watergate” — and they're getting a big boost from Russian bots. The growing conservative conspiracy theory about missing FBI texts, explained.
From NYRB, James Kirchick on Trump’s debt to Ron Paul’s paranoid style: “The appeal of Paul and Trump to such Americans is not so much their specific policy ideas as their anti-establishment temperament and rhetoric, and, more specifically, a feverish anti-elitism that inevitably leads to conspiracy-mongering”.
