![]() ![]() In 2010, then Alabama Supreme Court Judge Roy Moore warned that President Obama would seek to install “a UN guard in every house” right wing media figures obsessed over the President’s supposed radical influences (Jeremiah Wright and Bill Ayers), even claiming that his election was part of a vast plot to destroy America (a theme infamously repeated by Sen. Driven by Fox News and talk radio hosts such Glen Beck and Alex Jones, Republicans increasingly adopted birtherism, claimed that President Obama was a Muslim, and indulged a variety of other fringe beliefs. During the Tea Party’s heyday in 2009-2011, political rhetoric on the right took on an increasingly conspiratorial tone. Many of the more extreme currents in contemporary political discourse have originated from the political right, specifically from the Tea Party and President Trump. ![]() In the last ten years, the intersection of conspiracy theories with American political rhetoric has become alarmingly common. ![]()
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