Taking the Conspiracy Pill

Viewed independently, Alex Jones looks like a harmless conspiracy theorist. But placed next to Bo Gritz, we can see him for what he is: a way to ease people into Christian identity style beliefs that lead inevitably to exterminationist anti-Semitic beliefs. The last five years or so have been a continuous dispiriting process of watching outright fascist beliefs bubble up on places like Reddit and 4chan. It seems at times as if the Nazis have literally eaten the internet we all knew and loved as kids. This did not happen by accident.