Craziness from the American left is to be expected given that they have been deeply, deeply indoctrinated and brainwashed to the point of outright psychopathy (and I'm being literal with that word, it's not hyperbolic.)
However, while certainly significantly less common, people turning crazy on the American conservative side also happens in significant amounts, which becomes very noticeable when it's a celebrity or prominent influencer who does so.
There's of course the occasional case of "The Amazing Lucas" who for years and years used to be a very reasonable and rational full-on American conservative and was very popular, but who at some point went completely bonkers, to the point of losing hundreds and hundreds of thousands of subscribers in a short period of time (which in YouTube is extremely rare and requires you to really piss off your audience.)
However, I'm not really talking about those cases. I'm mostly talking about people who were and still are conservatives but who have gone insane in one way or another, in small or slightly bigger issues.
I have noticed the pattern that religious people, especially fundamentalist Christians, tend to be more prone to believing all kinds of conspiracy theories. Many of them believe in the "classic" conspiracy theories, but also whenever a new one pops up, most of them just believe it wholesale because their own side at large believes it (the conspiracy theories about climate science and the covid-19 vaccines being the most prominent but by far not the only examples.)
For some years I used to be subscribed to the YouTube channel "Zeducation", run by a guy who goes by the name "Tyler Zed", and who is notoriously American conservative. However, since he only makes reaction videos to memes, I kind of got tired of it, and I entirely lost interest when it turns out that he believes in the Moon landing hoax conspiracy theory. I was already stopping watching is channel, but that kind of cemented it.
Matt Walsh is one of the biggest American conservative activists on YouTube, and he constantly shoves the climate science conspiracy theory into his videos, even when the subject matter has absolutely nothing to do with it (or even science at all). In this case that hasn't caused me to stop watching his channel, but it is tiresome. (He also often repeats all kinds of fringe American Christian claims, like for example that Christianity invented the concept of human rights and that the Founding Fathers based the Constitution on Christian ideas, both of which are just utterly and obviously false.)
But that doesn't make them crazy per se. There are much worse examples.
Kanye West was (and might still be, haven't checked) a very popular rapper and, perhaps a bit surprisingly, turned out to be very conservative and a huge Trump supporter when he was first running for President in 2015 and afterwards. Unsurprisingly, American conservatives liked him a lot.
Then at some point Kanye started spouting some really strange shit supporting Hitler (if I remember correctly) which was so insane that he lost his popularity in terms of politics almost overnight. As far as I know, he never recanted or explained that he was just making an edgy joke or something. (Although usually someone's race is very inconsequential, in this particular case Kanye being black makes it extra crazy.)
He was (and might still be) very close pals with one Candace Owens, who was also extremely vocal supporter of American conservatism and Trump, and who became even more famous and popular for quite many years. She frequently went to TV shows, university campuses and other places to defend conservatism and attack far-leftism, and she was extremely liked by conservatives.
Then she either turned into an astonishing anti-semite, or turned out to be one all along. You know, the kind of anti-semitism that thinks that Jewish "zionists" are controlling the world behind the scenes, assassinate people, and so on. Directly from neo-nazi anti-semitic conspiracy theories. I believe she went so crazy with this that also she relatively recently lost most of her popularity because of it.
Tucker Carlson was a TV host and political commentator on Fox News for many years, and was one of their most popular TV celebrities. He made a huge amount of news pieces and commentaries on current American politics, attacking the left. One of his most notorious acts was to expose the leaked security camera footage from the January 6th alleged "insurrection" that showed a completely different picture than what the Democrats were trying to paint (and who tried their hardest to censor that footage.) This was so utterly damaging to the Democrats' narrative that they outright advocated for his censoring and removal from television (against their oath to uphold the Constitution. Something that they never experienced any repercussions for.)
More recently Tucker Carlson has been seriously defending Islam and particularly Sharia Law, making excuses for it and completely ignoring how utterly inhumane, oppressive and against basic human rights it is. He has gone completely bonkers.
And those are just some of the most prominent examples. There are many, many more.
There just appears to be something about American conservatism that causes some of them to go crazy and start believing and supporting the most insane things.
That's, in fact, one of the biggest reasons that, even though I extremely strongly oppose the modern far-leftist ideology and consider it absolutely abhorrent, disgusting and outright psychopathic, I cannot consider myself an ultra-conservative either, at least not in the American sense.
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