I appreciate your suggestions, Alex. But here’s my wider point: the ‘outsider revealer of secrets’ is itself an archetype. Cooper, Smith, Horton, and others all play that role. They present themselves as brave truth-tellers exposing what hidden powers don’t want you to know. A segment of the audience laps it up, not because the history is sound, but because it fulfills an archetypal need for revelation. I’ve already written a critique debunking Cooper’s pseudo-historical takes on WWII and antisemitism, which shows how thin the "scholarship" really is. See link following.

More broadly, this isn’t new — American politics has long been fertile ground for conspiratorial thinking, as Richard Hofstadter’s The Paranoid Style in American Politics and Thomas Konda’s Conspiracies of Conspiracies both demonstrate. Graham Hancock does the same with ‘hidden ancient civilizations’ — different subject, same script. This isn’t history. It’s science fiction written in the style of history.

https://www.exploitingchange.com/tucker-carlsons-interview-with-darryl-cooper-i-listened-to-it-so-you-dont-have-to/