OPINION
Why Western elites now can’t resist conspiracy theories
By Sohrab Ahmari
December 17, 2018 | 9:07pm | Updated
Protesters gather at Place de l' Opera.
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I was born into a nation of conspiracy-mongers. For all their many admirable qualities, Iranians have a penchant for explaining the world through conspiracy theories, a talent for discovering a hidden hand — usually a Jewish or American one — behind every national setback and personal mishap.
Now I’m afraid that the West has succumbed to the same fever.
Only in the West these days, the hidden hand is usually a Russian one. And unlike in the Muslim world, where it’s typically the man on the street who suspects elites of serving nefarious foreigners, in the West, it’s the reverse: Many elites imagine that the common people, vast swaths of their own populations, are Kremlin agents.
The latest symptom of this elite mania appeared in France, where authorities blame Russian cyber operations for the mass protests that have erupted across the country. “There has been some suspect activity,” a French official told the Wall Street Journal. “We are in the process of looking at the impact.”
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