Conspiracist

[Kevin] Phillips's method is pretty conventional for conspiracists – he takes a single issue or set of data points and constructs an all-explaining story line to show how hidden cabals are controlling America.

As this business model developed, InfoWars’ shows, hosted by an array of conspiracists alongside [Alex] Jones, such as British conspiracist Paul Joseph Watson, became increasingly punctuated by ad breaks and product placement, in a way that one journalist described as like “the QVC for racist uncles” (Lamoureux, 2017).

The conspiracist worldview that presumes a wholly designed universe is similar, and with a conspiracy theory, the holder of the belief in some ways imagines themselves as the detective or investigator, […]