The centrality of conspiracy theories to President Trump's rise is an alarming blueprint for future demagogues. zakcheneyrice writes
President Donald Trump. Photo: Andrew Spear/Getty Images The key ingredient in most conspiracy theories is power — specifically, who has it, who doesn’t, and how far people are willing to go to secure it. They are top-down enterprises in many cases, the hidden hand of those with means and influence at play.
Trump’s peddling is especially significant because he is the president, and because the centrality of conspiracy theories to his rise is an alarming blueprint for future demagogues. Back when he was America’s foremost “birther,” Trump offered that President Obama was a Kenya-born Muslim who fudged his origins to ascend the ranks of American power — a position to which he had scant legitimate claim, in Trump’s estimation — in a bid to run the country as a real-life Manchurian Candidate.
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