I think it’s more insidious than that. I think much if not most of the conspiracy thinking is tied directly to evangelical Christianity. Of all the parts in the book, they embrace all the parts that has the magic in it most tightly, and now they think incredible, unbelievable things happen everywhere around them all the time. Of course, they don’t see the actual magic happening in front of their eyes, but they still believe the magic is behind everything they despise, so they hold up their hands and whisper to the skies hoping for countervailing magic to defeat it all. In the meantime, they are casting votes for and sending their living wages to anyone who makes a show of patronizing their magical thinking, hoping their efforts will hurt the people they most despise. It’s really very sad, but even worse, it’s quite dangerous, and the ironic part is, the people who get hurt most of all by it all is themselves.