A conspiracy theory would be claiming something vaguely defined but sinister is going on in secret and that absence of evidence is evidence.
(e.g. 9/11 or Sandy Hook being false flags, Pizzagate, Qanon, the "deep state").
What most people are talking about now is resemblances between actual actions and events that aren't in dispute and things that have happened in countries generally recognized as autocratic.
(e.g. the fake electors plot isn't a conspiracy theory, we know it happened; presidential immunity isn't a conspiracy theory, it is a Supreme Court ruling; pardoning people that attacked the Capitol isn't a conspiracy theory, it's an actual Executive Order; rewriting term limits isn't a conspiracy theory, it's an actual bill, etc.)
Reasonable people can disagree on the extrapolation of current events into the future without either being a conspiracy theorist.
(e.g. 9/11 or Sandy Hook being false flags, Pizzagate, Qanon, the "deep state").
What most people are talking about now is resemblances between actual actions and events that aren't in dispute and things that have happened in countries generally recognized as autocratic.
(e.g. the fake electors plot isn't a conspiracy theory, we know it happened; presidential immunity isn't a conspiracy theory, it is a Supreme Court ruling; pardoning people that attacked the Capitol isn't a conspiracy theory, it's an actual Executive Order; rewriting term limits isn't a conspiracy theory, it's an actual bill, etc.)
Reasonable people can disagree on the extrapolation of current events into the future without either being a conspiracy theorist.