Conspiracy theory is a fun 2020 buzzword because it’s such a powerful rhetorical attack. You can take something that is fringe and proven by data to be untrue (

Conspiracy theory is a fun 2020 buzzword because it’s such a powerful rhetorical attack. You can take something that is fringe and proven by data to be untrue (such as flat earth) and then lump it together with something that is simply unknown or politically embarrassing (what is on Hunter’s laptop?) and then treat them the same? The new way is actually just to suggest it’s Russian disinformation, and then suddenly that embarrassing thing about your family simply goes away.