No, really. Just ask Andrew Sullivan (see also The Weekly Standard and Legal Insurrection).
This is the curse of every person who enjoys conspiracy theories
It doesn’t always happen, thank God, but it happens too often.
Moe Lane
*The stages go like this:
- Stage One: Well, that’s odd. A tentative foray into what may be in fact not conspiracy thinking, but merely heretical scholarship. Many respectable scholars flirt with this stage, and some seem to delight in flaunting their embrace of it; their more staid colleagues are usually indulgent.
- Stage Two: Embracing the Crazy. This is full-bore crank territory, and is typically accompanied by more enthusiasm than rationality. Sufferers are usually disliked for it inside their field, but are often not particularly discriminated against outside of it.
- Stage Three: It’s all because of the Jews. Irreversible. Incurable. At absolute best, rather sad.
Crossposted to RedState.
, and is (to the best to my knowledge) in the public domain.
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