Please don’t use the word “crazy” to describe someone spouting hateful conspiracy theories. Signed, someone with a mental health disorder who does not try to incite political violence.
I probably more “crazy” people than your average political journalist, and scant few of them are racist trashmouths trying to get people killed.
Here are some other words you might use to describe someone who is trying to incite political violence with extreme rhetoric: authoritarian, extreme, untethered to reality, fabulist, fantastical, clownass, unreasonable, outrageous, irrational, preposterous, nonsensical…
Desperate, exaggerated, ludicrous, farcical, foolish, risible, twisted, illogical, incoherent… you get the idea. It’s a disservice to people w/ mental health issues to lump them in with perfectly sane racists who have been deluded by motivated reasoning into believing nonsense.
I have tried to make a similar point to @TheRickWilson in the past, that calling Trump votes “meth-addled” is a real insult to the meth addicts I know, none of whom are bigoted fascists.
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