While there was little doubt where his sympathies lay, it was not until Thursday that Donald Trump fully and publicly embraced the most conspiratorial aspects of right-wing American politics. Witness his speech in West Palm Beach, Florida, in which Trump engaged in the sort of rhetoric once associated with the likes of Father Coughlin and the John Birch Society.

Here’s the relevant excerpt from Trump’s address:

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