Key Democratic Officials Now Warning Base Not to Expect Evidence of Trump/Russia Collusion
"From MSNBC politics shows to town hall meetings across the
country, the overarching issue for the Democratic Party’s base since
Trump’s victory has been Russia, often suffocating attention for other
issues. This fixation has persisted even though it has no chance to sink
the Trump presidency unless it is proven that high levels of the Trump
campaign actively colluded with the Kremlin to manipulate the outcome of
the U.S. election — a claim for which absolutely no evidence has thus
far been presented.
The principal problem for Democrats is that so many media figures and online charlatans are personally benefiting from feeding the base increasingly unhinged, fact-free conspiracies — just as right-wing media polemicists did
after both Bill Clinton and Obama were elected — that there are now
millions of partisan soldiers absolutely convinced of a Trump/Russia
conspiracy for which, at least as of now, there is no evidence. And they
are all waiting for the day, which they regard as inevitable and
imminent, when this theory will be proven and Trump will be removed.
But with serious doubts — and fears — now emerging about what the
Democratic base has been led to believe by self-interested carnival
barkers and partisan hacks, there is a sudden, concerted effort to rein
in the excesses of this story. With so many people now doing this, it
will be increasingly difficult to smear them all as traitors and Russian
loyalists, but it may be far too little, too late, given the pitched
hysteria that has been deliberately cultivated around these issues for
months. Many Democrats have reached the classic stage of deranged
conspiracists where evidence that disproves the theory is viewed as
further proof of its existence, and those pointing to it are instantly
deemed suspect."
[The Intercept]
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