All the conclusions are the wrong ones, for example after noting that Stone's "J.F.K" was "total nonsense" and "widely, conclusively debunked" (albeit cinematically superb) he doesn't mention that it was debunked by the very same JFK researchers he happily smears as grifters and, of course, fails to mention any of the evidence they used to do so.
It's the same old confatathon; cram everything together and conclude any dissent from the mainstream is madness or "far-right".
He kind of skips over this bit too:
As the 1960s and 70s unfolded, there were further reasons to distrust official narratives: the Vietnam war, Watergate and the US’s shady interventions in foreign countries from Chile to Indonesia, not to mention the assassinations of Martin Luther King and JFK’s brother Bobby. As it happened, many of these did involve conspiracies.
lol.
And then, finally, he gets to the point:
By this time, most left-leaning conspiracists and X-Files fans had got off the bus. Like many 21st-century conspiracists, Jones also embraced homophobia, xenophobia, white supremacism and racism – such as the “Obama wasn’t born in the US” conspiracy theory. Conspiracism had become predominantly a rightwing concern.
Got to keep the bien pensant Liberals in line....
...no amount of cajolery, and no attempts at ethical or social seduction, can eradicate from my heart a deep burning hatred for the Tory Party...So far as I am concerned they are lower than vermin.
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