And look, it was confusing, and also, in a gallows way, funny, even to me. Again and again, she was saying things that sounded a little like the argument I made in The Shock Doctrine but refracted through a funhouse mirror of plots and conspiracies based almost exclusively on a series of hunches. She continually called Covid’s severity into question, describing it as “a much-hyped medical crisis,” even when it had already killed hundreds of thousands in the United States alone. She told Tucker Carlson that the Biden administration was, under the “guise” of a medical emergency, using “emergency orders” to “strip us of our rights—rights to property, rights to assembly, rights to worship, all the rights the Constitution guarantees.”

XREF: Connects to the psychology of how plausible frameworks get refracted into conspiracy theories, echoing literature on motivated reasoning and truth decay.

Naomi Klein, Doppelganger, loc. 108