This makes a tremendous amount of sense to me. Sorry to be political (what a crime), but I think it's a useful framework for thinking about the modern conservat

This makes a tremendous amount of sense to me. Sorry to be political (what a crime), but I think it's a useful framework for thinking about the modern conservative movement. So much of the right now defines itself not with a cohesive ideology or specific set of policies, but rather in knee-jerk opposition to anything their supposed enemies believe. When your starting point is "these people are 100 percent wrong no matter what they say" you are now forced to explain why. And the result is a whole universe of shared lies and conspiracy theories (and people trying really hard to create some consistency or reasoning to back up those lies).