Explain is a weekly series that examines what the right is currently obsessed, how it influences politics – and why you should know.
In the past two weeks, President Donald Trump has disagreed With its Maga base as never before.
His administration said that she would not disclose any other information on the case of the sexual trafficker condemned Jeffrey Epstein, and Trump made his doors against his own supporters not to comply with the current story.
Meanwhile, Democrats took it to the taskStressing how the law said that Trump’s election would cause new disclosure. But now the GOP has attempted transparency and possibly involved Trump himself in the fallout.
Led by Trump, the Conservatives spent years Push the theories of the conspiracy on Epstein and his death because she has fueled longtime accounts on the elite and the Democrats. The supporters said to themselves that Epstein’s sex trafficking had been used to benefit the super-rich and that the Democrats covered everything for the so-called “globalists” with whom they work together.
But it is not a recent development. Modern conservatism has always been obsessed with this kind of reflection of wild conspiracy.
John Birch’s right takes control
Extremist society John Birch Pink with prominence Right in the 1950s and 1960s in response to the rise in the “liberal” World Order under leaders like the Presidents Franklin D. Roosevelt and John F. Kennedy.
But it was not enough for blachers to simply oppose liberal ideas; They had to engage in bizarre plots, like the notion that the population was washed by the brain to support communism via fluoridated water.
After the conservative uprising which led Senator Barry Goldwater to Arizona and his acolytes taking control of the party – and losing the 1964 elections in a landslide – the conspiracy mentality, first, first, described as “The paranoid style” has become the default value on the right.
Paranoia becomes a dominant current
While some GOP leaders such as Presidents Richard Nixon, Ronald Reagan and George W. Bush attracted conspiracy fires again and again, there was an understanding that this extremism brand was a political non-start.
The republican establishment wanted the conspiracy votes of real believers without the public humiliation to stand by easily demystified absurdities.
It started to change after President Bill Clinton went up to the White House in 1993. Frustrated by Clinton’s victory, the Conservatives the accused openly And Hillary Clinton of the exploitation of a drug trafficking ring and committing a series of murders, among many other easily demystified plots.
This has reached feverish land when President Barack Obama was elected. The law could not accept the legitimacy of a black president and embraced The “Birther” plot, saying that his birth certificate was false and that he was really Kenyan. Of course, Trump was the most eminent reminder of this racist smear.
Figures once outside, like Sandy Hook Conspiracy Theorist Alex Jones, normalized himself under Trump and the Maga movement.
Suddenly, the right began to openly accuse the Democrats to be part of a sex traffic ring called “pizzagate”, which Inspired believers commit crimes, including The Alex Jones fan Who has tracked down a Washington pizza restaurant, DC, to free up children from the establishment nonexistent from the establishment.
Plots mean simple answers
In a complex world with horrible things that happen constantly that seem to challenge the explanation, conspiracy theories help make things “meaning”. The good grasps these theories as a way to explain why the world does not happen.
For example, many Republicans have simply never believed that a darkness is qualified to be president. Obama would be allegedly a Kenyan with a sprawling conspiracy which keeps him in power appears to them as a rational explanation.
Likewise, after Trump’s first disastrous mandate, many on the right had convinced that he had done an excellent job. Instead of counting with failures such as the number of COVID -19th deaths on his watch, the right – led by Trump –supported that the 2020 election was stolen.
The Republicans have capitalized on this state of mind, nourishing in their supporters a constant flow of non-conspiratory nonsense, in particular Demystified theories On the origins of Covid-19 and The Qanon plot This implies elites attacking children for their blood.
Trapped in their own trap
Conspiracy is the domain of the right. But in the Saga of Epstein, the Republicans suffer from the back of something they created. The story has changed something to easily associate on the left in a story removed by one of their own, Trump.
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Now, a culture that has told the Conservatives not to believe the evidence that they bear witness to their own eyes asks them to simply drop it and move on. It is difficult for many and impossible for some.
Trump wants the right to be silent about this scenario, either because his administration realizes that there is nothing to exhibit, either because Trump himself is directly involved. But his own Maga world has been said for so long that this event is the easy solution to so many of their problems, so they are not so ready to let him go.
The law needs this conspiracy to be true so that reality can be explained. Trump can’t stop it, it’s just along the way.
