"Repetition does not transform a lie into a truth"
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Epstein was a true monster. But conspiracy theorists are not always interested in the actual facts of his many real crimes.
Conspiracy theories about powerful elites who rule through secrecy have long been a staple of fringe literature and paranoid fantasies. From the Freemasons and the Illuminati of the 18th century to the Rothschilds and other Jewish financiers referred to in works like “The Protocols of the Elders of Zion” to today’s supposedly all-powerful “deep state,” we love to ascribe our problems to a cabal of untouchable power brokers, and we love reading books and diatribes about how we can’t do anything to stop them. [...]
