Intro -- Preface -- Praise for the Second Edition of Conspiracies and Conspiracy Theories in the Age of Trump -- Praise for the First Edition -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- 1 Introduction: Theorizing Conspiracy, Conspiracy Theories -- The Big Steal: A Conspiracy in Search of a Theory -- Political Conspiracies -- Conspiracy in Political Science -- Conspiracism Over the Decades -- Beyond Symptomology -- Chapters in This Book -- 2 Paranoia, Conspiracy Panic, and the Regime of Truth -- I'm Not a Conspiracy Theorist, But… -- Normal Believers, Malevolence, and the Paranoid Style -- Toward a More Democratic Regime of Truth -- Level or Scope of a Conspiracy -- Plausibility Based on Logic and Evidence -- JFK, 9/11, and The Regime of Truth -- From the Regime of Truth to Post-truth -- 3 New Conspiracism, Fake News, and QAnon -- New Conspiracism -- Misinformation and Conspiracism from Reagan to Trump -- From Cable News to Unsocial Media -- Fake News-Propaganda by Another Name -- QAnon, From Fringe to Mainstream -- Trump, the MAGAnificent -- 4 Conspiracies in the Voting Booth -- Reading Voters' Entrails -- Populism and the 2016 Election -- Fake News, Dark Money, Russiagate -- Years of Voting Dangerously -- Social Immobility and Unresponsive Elites -- Globalization, Economic Distress, and the Vote -- Election Fraud and Institutional Decay -- 5 Globalization, Populism, Conspiracism -- Suspicious Minds in the New World Order -- Immigration, Nativism, and Trump -- Wall Street |