I don& #39;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& #39;ve tried to sketch out an answer here: https://twitter.com/ClaireBerlinski/status/1297477368987164672">https://twitter.com/ClaireBer... https://twitter.com/alexzfinley/status/1297575168374693890">https://twitter.com/alexzfinl...

I wouldn& #39;t have said this quite so confidently before reading the Senate report. But that shocked me to my roots. I& #39;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& #39;s actually a high level of denial. I shouldn& #39;t have been as shocked as I was. But I just didn& #39;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& #39;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& #39;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& #39;m fairly sure--is a sense of humiliation. This is why saying, "But that& #39;s treason!" has no effect.