If you actually look at what the paranoid/conspiracy minded R's believe, it's basically the x-files.

Like, seriously, some lazy but effective propaganda machine has taken episode after episode of the xfiles and made it a core belief of the right.

... I wonder if Rupert Murdoch... Nah..

Re FEMA. I was a young teen in the early www era. Alex Jones was a nobody, but he was all aboard the FEMA train. As were a number of extremist rw sites that, unfortunately, I ended up following.

That was about 35 years ago.

It's amazing what you can convince people of.