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The book that accidentally created monster Alex Jones — and the author's deep regret
The Secret Room Is Not a TheoryPower Was Always VisibleJon Ronson’s Them is being remembered as a book about weirdos and fringe prophets, but the deeper story is uglier: it captured a political culture in which people were increasingly trained to look away from the institutions actually doing damage and toward imaginary puppet masters instead.The article’s own evidence makes the point for us. The decisive actors were not mystical elites in hidden chambers. They were federal agents at Ruby Ridge, armed movements around Waco, political opportunists like Alex Jones, and real networks of wealth…
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