Atwater had a brain tumor (that clearly impacted his sanity and led him to apologize to Dukakis for kicking his ass), I don’t see how Bush could have given him a brain tumor.
Your theory doesn’t hold water anyway, if Bush was afraid Atwater would be too effective against Bill Clinton leading Clinton to retaliate with some kind of blackmail dirt on Bush (collusion? what?) he could have simply ordered him to stand down rather than murder him.
As you know I don’t put much stock in grand blackmail conspiracies.
I don’t see Perot possibly winning 270 electoral votes under any circumstance. If it went to the House they would have elected Clinton.
I don’t have a problem with your premise until you get to Perot.
He only needed 181 electoral votes, in a three way race.
There was so much dirt on the Clintoons that if Papa Bush REALLY wanted to win reelection, he could’ve unleashed it. He didn’t. That followed the same pattern with McQueeg and Willard (some might throw in Dole, too, but I don’t question his patriotism, only that he wasn’t going to be permitted to win and refused to run an ungentlemanly race against a vile criminal).
As for grand conspiracies, you can call many of those grand consensuses. When you have a media that refuses to report on the truth, on real corruption, etc., it becomes exceedingly easy for this criminality to go on. These are the same people who deny there is a Combine in IL, a Deep State, Hillary’s corruption, or that Zero is a Mohammadan (or the dark forces who were backing him from the beginning), or that they are participating in the greatest scheme in the history of the republic to overthrow (by any means) the duly elected President - all this when the evidence is glaring.
As I said, it need not necessarily be “conspiracy” when you have so many on the same page with committing treason and sedition.