Opinion: In 2020, Trump’s conspiracy theorizing will only get worse
By Paul Waldman Paul Waldman Opinion writer covering politics Email Bio Follow Opinion writer April 3 at 12:42 PM President Trump was in fine form at a Republican fundraising dinner on Tuesday night, delivering a stream-of-consciousness speech that dipped enthusiastically into conspiracy theorizing. Which is nothing new for Trump, but it does point to an unexplored part of what is likely to be his reelection strategy in 2020.
There were a lot of close elections that were — they seem to, every single one of them went Democrat. If it was close, they say the Democrat — there’s something going on, fella, you gotta, hey! You gotta be a little bit more paranoid than you are. When Trump is at his most deranged like this, it’s hard to know how much of what he’s saying he actually believes, but it’s probably more than none of it but less than all of it. What he does seem to believe, however, is that keeping conspiracy theorists theorizing is an important part of his political success.
It’s important to appreciate that the conspiracy theorist doesn’t just believe a set of outlandish stories. He has adopted an entire way of thinking about the world, one in which there are always a dozen layers of lies concealing the hidden truth. The fact that most everyone believes something becomes evidence that it’s probably false.
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