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I haven't really looked into this specifically, but my vibe is that it's people without any class or material analysis trying to explain a world that isn't explainable with typical liberal theories. It's the same reason people go anti-vax or blame one specific racial minority for all the world's problems: things are fucked up, and what they learned in school doesn't answer the question.
I'd also argue that this kind of thinking is more common with petite bourgeois types, as they're more resistant to a class analysis, as doing so would paint them and their people as the bad guy.
It does feel like it has a grand overarching narrative like traditional antisemitic conspiracy theories, without actually mentioning Jews at all. Hyperborean/Atlantis vibes without the explicit racism (lots of implicit racism though).
There's a lot of overlap.