At the juncture between political marginalization, a growing concentration of power in elites, fear of an uncertain future and of other groups, distrust in establishments, real and imagined victimhood, mass media, prejudiced thinking and the need for a narrative connecting it all together, lies the conspiracy theory. Well-known conspiracy theories saturate everyday political life: Obama is a Muslim Kenyan in cahoots with black extremists, the Clintons ran a child sex ...