How the Pelosi assault suspect went from far left to far right

'Conspiracy theories are a ladder. You climb one rung and then another.'

David DePape, center, records Gypsy Taub being led away by police after her nude wedding outside City Hall on Dec. 19, 2013, in San Francisco. DePape is accused of breaking into House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's California home and severely beating her husband with a hammer.At first glance, David DePape seems like an unlikely suspect in what prosecutors are saying is an act of political violence against Paul Pelosi and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi.

“It seems like it doesn't make any sense, that it’s not possible,” said Mike Rothschild, journalist and author of “The Storm Is Upon Us: How QAnon Became a Movement, Cult, and Conspiracy Theory of Everything.” “One of the things that both far-left and far-right conspiracy theories have in common, and why they mesh so well together, is that they don’t trust experts. Everybody’s out to get you: Big Pharma, the deep state. ... They’re kind of all the same at some point.

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