This is a bad take.

What’s really happening lately is that many on the left (and I don’t mean all the pseudo-progressives out there) have been bludgeoned with charges of “conspiracy theorist” for events that verifiably happened in reality, and often very recently. This will continue to happen as centrists like this lose control of the narrative and anything that doesn’t fit what they want you to believe gets branded as “conspiracy theory.”

It’s a desperation move, but it is in part working — so it will roll on.