I know, I was speaking to the fact that they are right leaning.

The point to that sentence was to say there are reasons to not be left leaning (leftist or liberal) that don't involve conspiracies.

Yeah, that's just a common moderate-to-far left media cliche to form «a new normal» world picture where entire right part of spectrum declared fringe loonies. Because (in contrast to liberals) leftists doesn't allow the very existence of any alternate ideas.

For example, in Soviet Russia leftists even mass-executed a substantial number of left communists for being more left than Bolsheviks.