>>509210492 (OP)Absolutely. There is an unbroken line of causality which starts with 9/11 and ends with Donald Trump. Conspiratorial thinking errors have always been a function of the American social fabric, but 9/11 really kicked it into overdrive. It provoked a series of strategic errors in our leadership and it, maybe irrevocably, corrupted the American social fabric by reintroducing modern conspiratorial thinking supercharged by the internet. It is an unhealed national trauma which rests under a mile-thick bandage. It was a deathblow to America.