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I don't think this is the right question. I think the right question is, "Why does the GOP see the Kremlin as a great tool to weaken the US." I've tried to sketch out an answer here: https://twitter.com/ClaireBerlinski/status/1297477368987164672 https://twitter.com/alexzfinley/status/1297575168374693890
I wouldn't have said this quite so confidently before reading the Senate report. But that shocked me to my roots. I'll never "move on." Before that, I was able to remain, at least a little bit, in denial: I attributed some of what I was seeing to stupidity, naivete, partisanship.
That's actually a high level of denial. I shouldn't have been as shocked as I was. But I just didn't take it in, fully. The reality is that a minority of Americans--one large enough to capture the presidency and do immense, permanent damage to the United States--
is at war with the rest of America. That's truly how they see it. The siege mentality justifies what you and I would call "treason," and what is in fact treason under every common-sense definition. It justifies making common cause with the world's worst despots,
It justifies lying, crackpottery, the deaths of hundreds of thousands of Americans, the mockery of rule of law. The source of this--I'm fairly sure--is a sense of humiliation. This is why saying, "But that's treason!" has no effect.
