I think it's less that cluster A is being refined into its own voting bloc, but more that the Left and things that have happened in the past 12 years or less has now made this a more sound, reasonable, viable group to belong to.
Forced mask mandates, vaccines, and little to no recognition of natural immunity. Or weighing the consequences of schools, jobs, increased substance abuse, increased child abuse, etc from the fall out of Covid government responses. The authoritarian push, and now as we are seeing the concerted effort to silence/minimize the social media counter points of this group - in what is a free society - cannot be minimized the down stream effect this has on many people.
Schools pushing climate anxiety to an even heighted level of fear. Schools pushing gender issues in ages that simply are just inappropriate and wrong. WA and now CA passing laws that say states can take your kids - take your kids - because of gender ideology. That right there, is an amazing reason to pissed off and paranoid. State sanctioned child abduction. Home schooling once an atypical odd thing to do, now is almost the opposite. If you haven't put your kids in homeschool or private school, what is wrong with you?
Continued push to destroy the economy and personal liberties with getting rid of things like gas stoves? Electric vehicles? Lower water using appliances. Rising taxes. The topped with the cake of printing trillions of dollars to unleash the most economically destructive force known - inflation. Supply chain shortages from Covid and the flashlight shining on the weakness of a global based economy. Not finding diapers or wipes or formula when you have young kids... that leaves a heck of an impression.
Gun Violence as a term. What, no car violence, knife violence, fist violence? And now Biden creates a gun violence commission? Nope, people can see that lie for what it is... using bureaucracy to create the farce of civilian disarmament. All in the context of legalizing the drugs, down grading the criminal code to foster the homeless crisis and unchecked crime crisis. Oh, don't forget the defund the police movement on top of all this. Oh, and letting in illegal immigrants without concern.
Let's not forget the repeated media lies, which further ignites these flames. Russian dosier was true, not a hoax being pushed - and then years later, oops our bad, we intentionally didn't do our job and pushed that propaganda. Then same thing with hunter biden lap top. Same thing with minimizing clinton emails. Same thing minimizing clinton role allowing a US embassy to be sacked. This list goes on. Without the integrity of the media - this opens up the receptiveness of people to say, well, maybe this conspiracy theory might be true? They did lie to us about these other things?
I've had exposure to paranoid preppers over the years. Always thought they were weird. Fast forward to being Psychiatrist, got a more refined view of the populace from those with true disorders to those basically having a unique hobby. Now, with all these things above going on the in country, people envy these preppers, like dang, you guys were right all along, and are well under way. Simply review the above issues, which isn't even a comprehensive list, and then it starts to make more sense.
This isn't a paranoid bloc. This is a group of people who are upset, shocked, and dismayed by things that are eroding the economy, their freedoms, the way of life they have known, the sense of community that has been but now fractured by the perpetual Racist Monster - despite America being one of the least racist countries on the planet.
So really, if people here and there latch on to a conspiracy theory or two, I get it. I don't blame them. I see it for what it is, a greater symptom of rebuff to liberal left, and the erosion of accountability to politicians who should have resigned (or been jailed), and the perpetual gaslighting of the media.