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They’re working overtime to change the narrative and the media is starting to weakenby digby
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| When Republicans weren’t completely crazy |
Like most of you, I imagine, I am convinced that something very hinky went on between the Trump campaign and Russian agents during the campaign. I don’t know if it affected the election results but the more I learn about the breadth and power of cyber-propaganda the more I think it might have. In a close election, there are probably a dozen reasons one can attribute to the loss, so who knows?
But the fact that it happened and there’s a ton of evidence that Russian agents tried to infiltrate the campaign and we know that Trump himself has behaved very oddly with respect to to Russia and Vladimir Putin, means there’s solid reason to pursue this. It’s a very worrying development and the fact that our president is a pathological liar who declares that any negative facts are “fake news” — and has a party that’s cravenly dropped its own grip on reality and is falling in line behind him — is downright scary. This is a real threat and we don’t have a clue as yet how to properly defend against it.
Keep in mind that it doesn’t have to be Russians who do this. It could be anyone, including the Koch brothers.
Right now, we are seeing the right wing fight back and fight back hard. I’m watching Republicans all over my TV say today that the Mueller team is tainted because the team he assembled aren’t all Republicans who support Trump. This is amazing. If you’ll recall during the interminable Whitewater/Lewinsky scandal it was an article of faith that only right wing Republicans were qualified to investigate a Democratic president because otherwise they might go too easy on him. I know you’ll be shocked to find out that they are inconsistent and hypocritical.
But this is a big problem. We’re not talking about some ancient land deal in Arkansas or lying about a consensual affair. This is about foreign interference in the election, the possibility that the person who won knew about it and attempted to cover it up after the fact.
This is as serious as it gets.
I hope everyone can pay close attention to this issue as we go forward but if you have a busy life and don’t have time to do all the curating of relevant news, I hope you’ll continue to stop by here from time to time. I’m following it in detail every single day and trying to synthesize and analyze what’s happening as best I can.
If you are doing last minute shopping this week-end and feel like putting a little something in the Hullabaloo Christmas stocking, it would be most appreciated. As always, I’m immensely grateful for all of my readers. It’s what keeps me going.
Happy Hollandaise everyone! Together we will get through this.
Keep the faith.
cheers — digby
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