He added that LaRouche’s ideas had an “important backstage role” in electing the very untraditional Trump. He indulged in many of the conspiracy theories common to his time, such as believing that President John F. Kennedy was assassinated by government forces because he was a threat to the establishment. Jesse Walker, author of “The United States of Paranoia: A Conspiracy Theory,” published in 2014, says LaRouche’s rise coincided with a new kind of conspiracy thinking. “Before, people tended to adopt the conspiracy theories associated with their own circumstances — there were liberal conspiracy theories, conservative conspiracy theories, and so on,” he says. Show me your favourite conspiracy theory and I’ll show you who you are.”

Source: National Post February 15, 2019 06:00 UTC