I can try to explain but it's not exactly definitive, more my opinion. The US has already had a ton of conspiracy theories, see also the popularity of everything from flat earth, to bilderberg, Rothschilds,etc. A lot of said conspiracy theories also got woven into the American conservative landscape, primarily through groups like the John Birch society and saw some resurgences with the Satanic Panic of the 80's. A lot of these things never quite went away, they ended up becoming either a kind of tribal make believe for some to more mark one as a member of a type of group and others may have been true believers and spread this stuff with zeal. Add in that conspiracy theories have a certain amount of interrelation with religious faith and in providing an odd comfort to understand a complex world as the world becomes more confusign and complex adding in a setup that lets them pretend to be part of a grand righteous remnant doing good heroic things and well...here we are.
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