Huntington suggests that certain social problems like political disturbances, military problems and. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves. In his article Political Development and Political Decay published in 1965, Samuel P. These keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. We cannot allow “conspiracy theory” to be used to discipline investigation of how this has happened and not only to defend democracy but also to deepen and extend it. Mainstream political science has been forced by the rise of Trump to confront the myth of American exceptionalism and to recognize that liberal democracy now seems threatened in its hegemonic home. But conspiracy theories can also be gateways to better understanding the causes and consequences of Donald Trump’s improbable rise to the presidency. The ones that fit the paranoid style are not only bad theory, they should continue to be condemned for their association with scapegoating, repression, genocide, etc. Like other social scientific theories, conspiracy theories need to be entertained or rejected as good or bad theories. Conspiracy is a way of doing politics that needs to be studied and theorized much as any other form of political activity. Although conspiracy theories can assume the characteristics that Hofstadter made notorious as the “paranoid style” in American politics, this meme has been abused, used as a way to impose self-discipline upon theories that stray outside the regime of truth, especially those that challenge the myth of American exceptionalism and that characterize American hegemony as imperialist.
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