Analysis | Anti-elitism and the Internet are a problematic combination

You can see how, particularly here, this appeal to individual authority is self-defeating. This is a guy who has accepted at least the broad strokes of a conspiracy theory that, at its depths, hypothesizes a satanic cabal of cannibalistic pedophiles that controls American power. If your unfailing confidence in your own ability to assess credibility led you there, perhaps your confidence is misplaced. And yet there he was, making that case, in that context.