Then the commentariat took these unconfirmed reports and wished them into existence.
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Like everything else, this became Trump’s fault.
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The second part of his hypothesis was, to anyone with eyes, proven to be inaccurate. Without any recognition from those who advanced the conspiracy theory.
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I’m not naive enough to expect some kind of mea culpa - the absence of them is why I do these threads - but if we’re gonna address conspiracy theories writ large, the left’s matter too.
It was, in fact, paranoia.
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