Miranda Devine: Why Dems' "Russian Disinformation" Claims Can't Be Taken Seriously

This.

What a train wreck. 

   The Dems have lost their collective mind about Russia, and deployed a barrage of lies, coverups and hoaxes utilizing anti-Russia hysteria to achieve domestic--mainly anti-Trump--political ends. All the while spinning all things China in the opposite direction--underplaying the threat, covering up evidence of genocide and Chinese responsibility for unleashing the Wuhan virus on the world, and generally cozying up to the totalitarian CCP. 

   Abject madness.

   Now, of course, Putin is engaged in what amounts to mass murder--not to mention the attempted destruction and subjugation of an independent state--in Ukraine. 

   There are no good guys in this picture. 

   And now, on top of this, we seem to have the right leaning overmuch toward excusing Putin. And on top of that, we have the predictable vilification of those expressing even rather moderate anti-war sentiments. Thou shalt not refuse to jump on the war-wagon with sufficient alacrity!

   There seem, from my ignorant perspective, to be no good options in Ukraine--the Ukrainian government also not exactly constituting the good guys in this picture. Though, of course, the Ukrainian people are innocent and fighting a good fight. And under these conditions it seems rather out of place to overemphasize their government's past sins. Right? Or wrong? I don't know.

   I feel like there's no practical hope of me figuring out what to think about this insane situation. Maybe no summary judgment is even possible. Well, not about what to do in Ukraine, anyway. But what to think about the domestic situation and the left's anti-Russia hysteria--that seems clear enough. Hysteria, in general, pervades the left. Hysteria about climate change, hysteria about racism (including hysteria about police violence), hysteria about "gender" and transgenderism, hysteria about Trump, hysteria about "white supremacy," hysteria about COVID...it's all hysteria all the time. In part they're just hysteriacs. But it's no accident that each of these individual hysterias happens to give apparent support to different radical planks in the left's radical platform.