Jamelle Bouie: The conspiracist in chief will save us all

Conspiratorial thinking is an elemental part of American political life, one that stretches back to before the founding of the United States.“The conviction on part of the Revolutionary leaders that they were faced with a deliberate conspiracy to destroy the balance of the constitution and eliminate their freedom had deep and widespread roots — roots elaborately embedded in Anglo-American political culture,” the historian Bernard Bailyn wrote in his 1968 book, “The Ideolo