Anyone paying attention the past year has surely noticed a surge in online conspiratorial narratives. It seems as though every week the usual suspects—Tucker Carlson, Darryl Cooper, Alex Jones, Candace Owens, Nick Fuentes, and Ian Carroll—connect new dots to uncover secret conspiracies. Public exposure of this major trend began when Tucker Carlson hosted a revisionist history session with Darryl Cooper (whom Carlson deemed “the most honest and august historian in America”) in September 2024. In