When did the right start heavily embracing conspiracy theories?

[Unknown Poster]

That's on the front page of Breitbart.



The Republican party is turning into the party of conspiracy theorist nutjobs, anti-vaxxers, climate change deniers, christo fascists, neo-nazis, neo-confederates, white nationalists, race realists, white supremacists, militias, and just domestic terrorists.

This party is COOKED TO PERFECTION!
done!
Rather than face the truth about Trump's incom]etence Republicans would rather consume lies and conspiracy theories that void him from any accountability for his actions!

 

[Adeptus Astartes]

Since forever...the Jews, catholics, foreigners, lesser whites, negroes, Marxists, feminists, deep state, satanists, whathaveyou are always ganging up on poor innocent white anglo protestants...

Right wing politics are inherently reactionary and tribal. These people are still mad about the French revolution.
The funny thing is the ACTUAL conspiracies have been by the right against the left for most of recent history, especially in the US.

 

[Json]

Start believing government is the problem and you can see how they start believing in these vast conspiracies.

Governments are only as good as the people running it so they easily end up on the Doomsday prepped and guns don’t kill people rhetoric.

Individualism taken you its logical conclusion

 

[Baka's Weird Case]

the phenomenon you are talking about started during the Obama years.

now of course racist conspiracy theories have a storied history in right wing politics, but during the W Bush years there was a big distinction between mainstream republicans and the guys coming up with and believing in batshyt insane conspiracies with no grounding in reality. i think back then conspiracy theorists were especially associated with 9/11 truthers who were seen as really distasteful. but more importantly for republicans the narrative that a republican presidency rather than a muslim terrorist group was responsible for 9/11 didnt sit very well with mainstream republicans.

when obama came on the scene the birther movement set the stage for what youre seeing today. this was a theory based entirely in xenophobic racism that got a lot of mainstream exposure, and i think it put the battery in the backs of a lot of conspiracy theorists that they dont need any evidence and can just say whatever. once he got into office the right wing conspiracies were relentless.

i think a big turning point was also sandy hook. i think this is the first time where a substantial amount of people claimed that a major event had been completely staged with “crisis actors” playing grieving parents. since then this trend of questioning basic reality has really taken off.

you can see this in the evolution of alex jones from a fringe libertarian Austin weirdo in the Bush years to a relevant conservative media figure who is taken seriously by many republicans today.

 

[Ya' Cousin Cleon]

lot of gems here and to @19 No Covid

 

[re'up]

Birtherism and 9/11 "truthers", were the lead up to gamer gate, and false flags, which gets us here. In the micro sense.

 

[Wild self]

When the "Deep State" is trying to undermine Trump after the Midterms, is when MAGA made all these irregular statements

 

[null]

At points in history whenever they don't get their own way .

 

[ADevilYouKhow]

Always have been the far right has become mainstreamed with the Republican Party... that might be the change

 

[☑︎#VoteDemocrat]

protocols of the elders of Zion maybe?

They've always been into bullshyt

 

[☑︎#VoteDemocrat]

the phenomenon you are talking about started during the Obama years.

now of course racist conspiracy theories have a storied history in right wing politics, but during the W Bush years there was a big distinction between mainstream republicans and the guys coming up with and believing in batshyt insane conspiracies with no grounding in reality. i think back then conspiracy theorists were especially associated with 9/11 truthers who were seen as really distasteful. but more importantly for republicans the narrative that a republican presidency rather than a muslim terrorist group was responsible for 9/11 didnt sit very well with mainstream republicans.

when obama came on the scene the birther movement set the stage for what youre seeing today. this was a theory based entirely in xenophobic racism that got a lot of mainstream exposure, and i think it put the battery in the backs of a lot of conspiracy theorists that they dont need any evidence and can just say whatever. once he got into office the right wing conspiracies were relentless.

i think a big turning point was also sandy hook. i think this is the first time where a substantial amount of people claimed that a major event had been completely staged with “crisis actors” playing grieving parents. since then this trend of questioning basic reality has really taken off.

you can see this in the evolution of alex jones from a fringe libertarian Austin weirdo in the Bush years to a relevant conservative media figure who is taken seriously by many republicans today.

nah... you gotta peep someone like Steve Bannon and him always talking about the "camp of the saints" talk.

 

[NkrumahWasRight Is Wrong]

Birtherism and 9/11 "truthers", were the lead up to gamer gate, and false flags, which gets us here. In the micro sense.

Ok but lets not act like 9/11 truthers also werent lefties. Birtherism yes, pure right wing. 9/11 was under bush and that encompassed many people in both parties

 

[Baka's Weird Case]

nah... you gotta peep someone like Steve Bannon and him always talking about the "camp of the saints" talk.

Miller Pushed Racist ‘Camp of the Saints’ Beloved by Far Right

Critics hounded Bannon about “The Camp of the Saints” in 2017 after reporters scrutinized his interest in the novel in the wake of the Trump administration’s travel ban to some Muslim-majority countries. The first public reference Bannon made about the book appears to be in October 2015 when he conducted a radio interview with Sessions while still at Breitbart.

Bannon played a huge role in the mainstreaming of these conspiracy theories at Breitbart and also when he was making those weird documentaries in the 2000s.

 

[Baka's Weird Case]

Ok but lets not act like 9/11 truthers also werent lefties. Birtherism yes, pure right wing. 9/11 was under bush and that encompassed many people in both parties

9/11 conspiracy theories appealed to a lot of people with varied fringe politics. i think the kennedy assassination conspiracy theories were like that too. i guess because they were such major events with complex impacts its easier for people to find angles in these theories that support their politics.

 

[NkrumahWasRight Is Wrong]

9/11 conspiracy theories appealed to a lot of people with varied fringe politics. i think the kennedy assassination conspiracy theories were like that too. i guess because they were such major events with complex impacts its easier for people to find angles in these theories that support their politics.

Agreed. people with general distrust in the government regardless of politics