Politics in the age of conspiracy

Crazy, paranoid theories have now erupted into mainstream political thinking in a way that would not have seemed possible only a few years ago.

Pro-Trump protestors are pictured in Washington, D.C., on Nov. 14, 2020. Six months after the Nov. 3 vote, polls show two-thirds of Republicans still believe Joe Biden’s victory was illegitimate, with nearly one-third of independents voicing the same opinion, writes Les Whittington.Photograph courtesy of Flickr/Geoff Livingston

Opinion

BY LES WHITTINGTON

July 7, 2021

OTTAWA—Yielding to conspiracy theories has been a human habit worth recording going back at least to the late 1800s, and has contributed to all kinds of mass hysteria, catastrophes, murders, and other mayhem. But this kind of thing has generally been associated with fringe elements of society. Un...

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