I've been listening to conspiracy theories all my life.  Some are nasty (when they target specific groups of people as agents of human woe), some are whacky - such as the lizard men masquerading as humans to take over the world.   There are large swathes of the population who believe the aliens are already among us, and like the second coming of Christ, are about to reveal themselves and save us from ourselves.

Alex Jones is another one of these conspiracy spinners.  I first heard about him in Jonathan Robson's hilarious book 'Them', in a chapter where the journalist joins Jones and his cohorts to try and expose the super rich at Bohemian Grove in California (which IS a bit creepy if you know anything about it).

In a secular world of seemingly random events,  this idea of conspiracy is an attempt to make order out of chaos, and somehow by believing these unlikely ideas, take control of that chaos.  Jones' is current notoriety is due to Trump - he and his kind are nothing new.