WSJ: How a U.S. President Pivoted Toward Russia

I don't understand such negotiations at all, but I dislike just about everything I'm hearing about Trump's Ukraine negotiations. The WSJ newsroom is just about as anti-Trump as any other, so there's a lot of contentious spin in this story. For example, its account of Trump's 9/19 phone call with Zelenskyy. The story gives a thoroughly blue account of the incident, with no mention of, e.g., the fact that Trump was probably right about Biden family money shenanigans in Ukraine, and that his inquiry was legit. He was impeached for asking legitimate questions. Biden wasn't touched for his family's underhanded business dealings...but Trump was impeached for asking about them.

   And there is, of course, no mention of the Democrats' Russiagate hoax in radicalizing Trump on this score...

   But a President shouldn't allow himself to be driven by such resentments about this sort of thing, appalling that it is. And, however despicable the left's treatment of him, his approach to the Russia-Ukraine problem seems way, way wrong. To me, anyway.

   It's certainly true that the American right has basically allowed itself to be similarly thrown off track, and has embraced Russia basically just because the left has become so obsessively anti-Russia. I mean, the American left is certainly right that Russia is the bad guy in this situation. Their reaction to the mess--turning it into another occasion for virtue-signaling and political cheerleading--has been weird. But it's nothing compared to the right's loony reaction to it all.

   Very damn concerning.

   But, again: I knew who I was voting for.