You can draw a straight line from the embrace of conspiracy theorists like Glenn Beck, Rush Limbaugh, and Alex Jones during the Obama years to where we are today. The GOP mainstream has been hyping this up since *at least* 2008. It started to crest and become more visible and active with the Bundy Ranch/anti-BLM militias in Ferguson in 2…
You can draw a straight line from the embrace of conspiracy theorists like Glenn Beck, Rush Limbaugh, and Alex Jones during the Obama years to where we are today. The GOP mainstream has been hyping this up since *at least* 2008. It started to crest and become more visible and active with the Bundy Ranch/anti-BLM militias in Ferguson in 2014, but the roots of the madness that drove that nonsense came from none other than GB, RL, and AJ. Now any asshole with a YouTube account (looking at you Tim Pool) can crazify the right wing audiences because the culture is already baked in. They don't have to start from the ground up like their forerunners did.
You can draw a straight line from the embrace of conspiracy theorists like Glenn Beck, Rush Limbaugh, and Alex Jones during the Obama years to where we are today. The GOP mainstream has been hyping this up since *at least* 2008. It started to crest and become more visible and active with the Bundy Ranch/anti-BLM militias in Ferguson in 2014, but the roots of the madness that drove that nonsense came from none other than GB, RL, and AJ. Now any asshole with a YouTube account (looking at you Tim Pool) can crazify the right wing audiences because the culture is already baked in. They don't have to start from the ground up like their forerunners did.