'Actually evil': Georgia conservative pulls the lid off new MAGA conspiracy theory

Georgia conservative Erick Erickson is decidedly not pleased that many supporters of former President Donald Trump are spreading fake news about Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp reopening a probe into 17,000 "invalid" votes cast during the 2020 election.

Writing on Twitter, Erickson outlined why several pro-Trump influencers are continuing to push "a blatant lie" about the 2020 election despite the fact that Kemp's own office has come out and said it is not opening any new investigations.

Although Erickson thinks that some of the influencers' motivation is simply keeping their audience engaged, he also believes there are far darker and more sinister motives just below the surface.

"Doing all this undermines trust in the system," writes Erickson, who also argued that it was no coincidence that the new conspiracy theory was promoted right after Rudy Giuliani got hit with a massive $148 million defamation verdict. "By undermining the government and trust in the system, they think they can capture that trust."

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Essentially, Erickson believes that if they can undermine trust among their followers in the entire American republic, they can tear it apart and replace it with an authoritarian government.

"Many of them actually hope to destabilize the system and have convinced themselves that, once the system collapses, they'll come out on top," he warns. "It actually is an evil. They lie, twist the truth, and do so from self-interested motivation."