Column: Our Desperate Conspiracy-Prone Press

The term “conspiracy theory” is often associated with kooks and panic peddlers, who see nefarious secret forces leading us all to our doom. It’s linked to people pushing transparently silly-sounding tropes – like the QAnon clan who claim Hillary Clinton’s running a global Satanist pedophile sex ring out of pizza parlors.

It’s sad that anyone falls for feverish gunk like this.

The press is extremely unhappy with Donald Trump for poisoning the political waters with conspiracy theories. They expressed disgust with Trump’s recent stream of suggestions that a dramatic increase...