Conspiracy theory is now not only a perspective on world events, but an active force within them - I don't just mean that there are conspiracies, but that conspiratorial and counter-conspiratorial theorising and strategising are part of how mass politics is done. Duginists and Bannonites and people like that are shaping not so much the way influential people think, as the way they think other people think. It's not that those with power are themselves Moldbuggians necessarily; rather, they know there are forces they can rally by dogwhistling to Moldbuggians. It doesn't take much to make a QAnon cultist prick up their ears, they're constantly on the lookout for signs that someone's in on the game. It's a bit like the Bene Gesserit in Dune seeding religions and prophecies so that they can exploit them later.