Was the founding of America not a kind of conspiracy? (“We must, indeed, all hang together, or, most assuredly, we shall all hang separately.”) Did Lincoln not conspire to pass the Thirteenth Amendment, knowing it was his only chance, that it was the only way? Was America’s entry into the Second World War not a conspiracy between FDR and Churchill? Was it not a conspiracy that took down Nixon, an unstable tyrant whose use of the hidden hand was too heavy to bear? Wasn’t there a conspiracy, led by several obscure colonels and captains in the late seventies and eighties, that rebelled against
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