We know the Russians tried to help Trump in 2016. We know he openly welcomed their help, regarding Hillary, and his campaign welcomed help. “No collusion, no obstruction” became the Big Lie mantra toward Mueller, yet Manafort passed on polling data to a Russian agent, and kept his mouth shut, or lied to Mueller. Of course Manafort was helping Russia interfere in our election. We’re not stupid.
Plenty of welcoming, of understanding it couldn’t hurt. “Russia, if you’re listening....”
“Massive election fraud” became the 2020 Big Lie mantra. Only that mantra is broadcast by an American president and a domestic political party. The Republican Party, one of two major parties in the United States have now taken it a step further then Putin. Intervene in an election after the fact. A political coup.
Maybe Putin recognized a useful idiot when he saw one. Maybe they had an actual agreement. Maybe Trump was a Manchurian candidate to some degree. Maybe we’ll know some day.
Republicans recognize an autocrat they can’t say no to. The choice between supporting Trump, and thereby overturning an election described as fair and secure, including by all outside observers, or saying no to Trump, is answered in favor of undermining democracy in America.
Going forward is going to be difficult given the Republican Party’s open attack on our democracy.
And yet for some, all this goes over their head, or they find Hunter Biden, regarding whom there is an ongoing Justice Department investigation, which will reach conclusions in time, to somehow be of more pressing concern than a demagogue, (whom anybody could have recognized for what he represented the day he descended the escalator in Trump Tower, and told us what he thought of Mexicans), acting, along with his captive Party, to undermine democracy in America.
Oh, and the fact that Trump is silent on the Russian cyber attack, that appears to be the 21st century warfare version of Pearl Harbor, or as Romney said, “as if Russian bombers were flying over our country”, the fact that Trump cannot condemn that attack on our nation, this too is simply ignored by the intrepid Biden hunters. SMFH....