Jay Kuo: Conspiracy Theories and the MAGA GOP
https://thinkbigpicture.substack.com/p/trump-maga-gop-conspiracy-theories
There are three modern political conspiracies that a good number of the American public have bought into, more or less fully.
The first we are familiar with: the Big Lie about a stolen election. This theory posits, in a nutshell, that the Democrats managed to pull off electoral fraud on a massive scale across numerous states, enough to tip the election to Joe Biden and rob Trump of his rightful win.
The second concerns the so-called Biden Crime Family, which takes the true narrative that Hunter Biden was profiting off of his fathers position to falsely assert that the entire Biden family (meaning, his father) is corrupt. This conspiracy is complicated, as many are, because it is intertwined with Russian propaganda about Ukrainian corruption. It is also now the driving factor behind an evidence-free impeachment inquiry in the House.
The third conspiracy is of election interference, a drum Trump and his acolytes like to beat nearly daily, which claims that federal and state prosecutors are in a coordinated effort to take Trump down in order to keep him from regaining the Oval Office. They make this assertion even though there is an independent Special Counsel in charge of both federal prosecutions and there are independent local prosecutors bringing the state charges.
These three conspiracies are all fairly easily disproved based on the facts. But facts and the truth have never stopped a conspiracy from spreading. They follow a very familiar course for modern conspiracies, and in a normal world, the public would lump them in with 9/11 truthers and Pizzagate.
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