Two decades ago, a somewhat infamous July 2006 poll found that 51% of Democrats believed the Bush Administration either “assisted in the 9/11 attacks” or knowingly allowed it to happen.
These beliefs correlated with regular use of the internet to consume news and information, as opposed to more “mainstream” sources.
Age, therefore, was also a strong predictor: younger people were considerably more likely to believe the 9/11 theories, while older people were considerably less likely — consistent with who tended to use the internet at the time.
In the ensuing 20 years, though, almost everyone, regardless of age, now receives some or most of their news / information from online and/or social media. It’s become by far the most dominant medium in shaping people’s views about current events.
This has coincided with partisan polarization increasingly coming to be commingled with the most maximalist, online-fueled theories.
Case in point: a February 2026 poll found 91% of Democrats believed “Donald Trump is trying to cover up Jeffrey Epstein’s crimes” — 86% believed Trump was personally “involved” in those (unspecified) crimes.
This can be placed in the same rough continuum as a November 2018 poll which found that 67% of Democrats believed “Russia tampered with vote tallies in order to get Donald Trump elected President.”
Don’t get the idea it’s a Democrat-specific phenomenon, though.
Relatively few Republicans (18%) believed the 9/11 theories in July 2006 — but this can be understood mainly as a function of the standard partisan polarization effects. Almost certainly, the numbers would have been flipped if, say, it was Bill Clinton still in the White House at the time, rather than George W. Bush.
In a February 2014 poll, 66% of Republicans stated their belief that Barack Obama was not born in the United States. (A theory notoriously promoted, and later retracted, by Trump himself.)
This was after five or six years of mounting negative polarization against Obama. Just like Dems’ views on Bush and 9/11 had peaked in 2006, after roughly the same length of time for negative polarization to mount against the incumbent president.
And with Trump, it’s been over a decade of beating red-hot vitriol — Dems will believe almost anything negative about him.
So, in conclusion... happy 9/11.
It’s an empirical fact that George Bush knew 9/11 was coming because of the August 6th Presidential Daily Brief entitled “Bin Laden Determined To Strike In US”.
He did exactly nothing about it and remained on vacation.
I have a biblical view. I believe September 11th was punishment from God. Sort of like Moses lifting up the tablets and cursing the Israelites into a miniature holocaust. We are a PAGAN nation that worships w0e-MEN and oppresses BOYS & MEN., I believe Bin Laden was an agent of God and not a bad person. I have no motive to say these things accept they are my beliefs.