Its not really a ‘conspiracy theory’ if all of the facts support it.
Indeed. HuffPo and others are quick to use the term to minimize his influence — a Guilt By Association fallacy.
But we can leave that aside. How many long-time, almost crazy-sounding (to those not paying attention) “conspiracy theories” have become “conspiracy facts” in just the past year or two?:
- “the government is tapping all our phones and saving all our emails from a big building somewhere!”
- “a guy I know criticized the government, and now he’s being audited for the first time in his life!”
- “I heard the government is buying guns and giving them to Mexican drug dealers so American gun stores will get blamed!”
et al...