Born Again Russiagaters: The Left's Religious Faith In The Russian Collusion Hoax

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   Scarborough is an idiot. To such an extent that I feel stupid even noticing him. So why? I dunno.
   Of course one of the left's fallback positions after the disintegration of Russiagate has been to conflate Russia tried to interfere with the election with Trump colluded with Russia. That seems to be mostly what Scarborough is doing, though later in he resurrects Manfort and "Russian outreach." Eventually I just started skimming, because this is unworthy of serious attention.

   No one significant has ever denied that Russia tried--in some sense of 'tried'--to interfere--in some sense of 'interfere' with the 2016 election. Basically like they always try--in some sense of 'try'--to. There's apparently a kind of background noise in every election, a buzz of low-grade election "interference" between nations. I've read that Israel has done it to us. And we have done it to other nations.

   At any rate: no one ever denied some laughably half-hearted Russian diddling around--e.g. the Beat it Jesus meme. Democrats seized on these things and pretended they were unusual and significant, and then conflated them with their own campaign of dirty tricks that we now know as Russiagate. And--voila!--Russian collusion!!!!

   This time around, it wouldn't actually surprise me a lot if such nonsense had more of an effect--the right has primed itself to believe almost anything bad that anyone says about Ukraine. That's something worthy of attention, I'd say. Not as significant as the "disinformation" campaigns being waged for the Blue Team by our own mainstream media...but just because something isn't the biggest problem doesn't mean it isn't a problem.