We live in an age where conspiracy has virtually usurped the political mainstream. “Conspiracy is our theme,” exclaims a character in Don DeLillo’s Running Dog (1989), “Connections, links, secret associations.” In “In His Volleys, Trump Echoes A Provocateur,” Jim Rutenberg tells us of the radio host Alex Jones, in Austin, Texas, who not only believes that 9/11 was an inside job but “that the Sandy Hook school shooting was ‘completely fake’ and that the phony Clinton child-sex trafficking scandal known as Pizzagate warranted serious investigation (which one Facebook fan took upon himself to do, armed with an AR-15).” Jones told Rutenberg that his “audience … is ‘the teeth of the Trump organization on the ground – the information-warfare, organic internal resistance’.”