This guy used to be a British MP.

In recent years, I’ve really come to appreciate just how disgusting the conspiracy-theorist mindset actually is. I used to think it was just stupid people saying unbelievably stupid things to other idiots. It is that, of course. But there is something more fundamentally disturbing about it, and that has become especially apparent with the rise of figures like Candace Owens, Bridgen and many others. It is a genuinely anti-human worldview.

When something amazing, something truly remarkable happens, the conspiracy theorist immediately seeks to turn it into its opposite: a negative event, a trick, something to be used to sow doubt and suspicion etc. Andrew Bridgen is doing that here, for instance. Through the Artemis and Apollo missions, humanity has achieved astonishing feats through collective effort. The conspiracy theorists, by contrast, contribute nothing, yet lazily try to leech off that achievement and recast it as something sinister. And they benefit from doing so with likes and clicks. It’s truly Ayn Randian.

Likewise, when something terrible happens, for example Charlie Kirk being shot, or the twin towers getting destroyed, the conspiracy theorist immediately weaponises that too, again to sow disharmony and misdirect blame, In so doing they allow the actual perpetrators to slip from view while victims, such as Erika Kirk, are blamed for things wholly outside their control.

It’s a low-IQ impulse, and it appeals to the worst and most vulnerable people out there. It attempts to tear down what is great, pardon the most evil people, and focus its hatred on victims. As it seeps into politics more broadly it will have purely negative consequences.