The conspiracy theory around murdered Democratic National Committee staffer Seth Rich isn’t weird so much as sad: it drags a man’s fairly recent death into the spotlight in order to promote the idea of a “deep state” plot, based on evidence that’s either speculative or factually wrong. But it’s brought together a strange coalition of well-known subscribers — including the internet entrepreneur Kim Dotcom.
Dotcom, founder of defunct cloud storage site Megaupload, isn’t just a high-profile proponent of the Seth Rich cover-up story. Last week, he claimed to be at the center of it. But in promising to blow the lid off the conspiracy, he mostly succeeded in proving how much traditional political divides have shifted, and how easily you can...
