The Right's Conspiracy Theory Machine Goes Into Overdrive After Minnesota Shooting

How conservatives immediately spun a tragic assassination into anti-left propaganda, despite all evidence pointing in the opposite direction.

On Saturday morning, Vance Luther Boelter allegedly dressed as a police officer, drove a fake police car to the homes of two Democratic Minnesota lawmakers, and opened fire. State Rep. Melissa Hortman, the former House Speaker, and her husband Mark were killed. State Sen. John Hoffman and his wife Yvette were wounded but survived surgery.

By Saturday aft…