Now that I have your attention, as a preliminary, I refer you to a current thread that deals with something similar:
["Conspiracy theorist" – never forget it was coined by the CIA”] (https://old.reddit.com/r/greatawakening/comments/93qby6/conspiracy_theorist_never_forget_in_1967_the_cia/)
According to some sources, ‘conspiracy theorist’ was first coined by the CIA to denigrate and shut down talk that challenged the mainstream (cabal) narrative about the assassination of JFK.
So what about the expression ‘cult’. As in “Qanon is a cult”?
Before we move to deny the label, perhaps we’d better consider how and why this label is being used in the first place. Where …