NRO: Russiagate, Revisited

Again, I think the NRO is exactly right about this.

Conservatives/Trump have gained the upper hand recently mainly via one not-even-really-a-tactic tactic: responding to Democrat extremism by occupying the sane, centrist ground.

   This is another opportunity to do the same thing...but my guess is that Trump is too mad to go that route. Instead, he's going to take the path of equal and opposite crazy.

   I don't really blame him, TBH. The Democrats have been grotesquely despicable in their anti-Trump character assassination efforts. In fact, that's their general strategy against all their political opponents. But obviously the Trump case has been more prominent.

   The HRC campaign wove a web of lies for a conclusion that, technically, could have led to Trump's execution (though, of course, that was unlikely). And more-or-less the whole blue team hopped on board, despite the laughable bullshittery of the case. It was obvious--to me, at least--by late 2017 that the Steele Dossier and the whole Russiagate case was a crock of shit. But you simply could not talk sense to Dems about it. More than one normally reasonable Democrat of my acquaintance insisted to me that there was no other possible explanation of the evidence--than that Trump had "colluded" with the Rooskies. No other even possible explanation! 

   And this was just one prong in the Dems' multi-pronged lawfare attack. James's bullshit real estate case against him, E. Jean Carroll's patently loony rape fantasy--these costing him, what, $450m and $100m respectively? Utter madness. I sort of can't blame Trump for wanting to crush these people. I certainly would.

   But that's why people like me shouldn't be President...

   One reason, anyway.

   But, even if understandable, the line Gabbard is spouting just doesn't seem defensible.

   Maybe there's more evidence. But what we've been offered thus far just won't do the trick.

   Again, I'm willing to follow the evidence wherever on this one...but it doesn't lead to the conclusion the Trumpistas are claiming it leads to.