"Conflating...Dumbing down...Connecting...Making..."
Actually, she didn't do any of those things.
Of course, if you haven't noticed that there really is a "dark, esoteric, plots against all that is good" in progress, I guess it might look like that.
There are a million such plots. Most of them are open, not esoteric, and none of them are centered around the word "consensus", except at 3 AM on talk radio.