Saturday, July 10, 2021

A Conspiracy Theory

RealClearPolitics normally doesn't link to off-the-wall stuff, and yet ... they've linked to a post by a Darryl Cooper who Tweets as MartyrMade. Cooper writes at Thread Reader why, in his estimation, so many Trump supporters believe the election was stolen. 

I will say what Cooper writes is plausible, in the same way Michael Anton's Flight 93 essay was plausible several years ago. I don't know if I buy what he's selling; he builds a good argument but that doesn't make it automatically either true or untrue. 

Cooper posits a set of collusive arrangements existing ("the Regime") which I don't want to believe exists, in spite of the evidence he cites which suggests it might. Others have called it "the Uniparty." Maybe you'll find it persuasive, maybe you won't, but do give him a chance to convince you.

Later ... The Right Scoop has video showing Fox News' Tucker Carlson last night read a substantial portion of Cooper's argument aloud on his program, and gave him credit for authoring it. To be sure, Carlson is a polemicist but in endorsing Cooper's claims he lifts them above the level of an Internet hit piece and gives them some credence.