"Russia and the Democrats"

Trump viewing the eclipse while crowd pleads with him to stop.

I assumed that whoever won the election, Trump or Clinton, would only last one term. If Clinton won we'd end up with Ted Cruz or some such monster in four years. Wasn't it better to have an erratic idiot like Trump who might do something good by accident, to have someone who was uneducated rather than miseducated? It was only four years. It'll be over before you know it. Then we could have someone decent.

But I was wrong.

I didn't vote for Trump. I've always been repulsed by that guy. Every other president has turned out to be far worse than anyone dared imagine. I thought Trump would be an exception to this. People thought he was Hitler, so anything short of actual Nazism would be a pleasant surprise. But I was wrong about that, too. He's so much worse than I thought.

And now he'll probably get re-elected because the Democrats clung to this anti-Russian nonsense.
 
Here's an article on the subject. I found it interesting.

"Russia and the Democrats".

Read it here:

https://www.counterpunch.org/2019/03/27/russia-and-the-democrats/

From the article:

The Clinton campaign’s decision to blame her electoral loss on Russian interference demonstrates why she was, and still is, unqualified to hold elected office. In the first, the U.S. – Russian rivalry is backed-up by hair-trigger nuclear arsenals that could end the world in a matter of minutes. Inciting tensions based on self-serving lies is stunningly reckless. In the second, the claim demonstrates utter contempt for her most loyal followers by feeding them purposely misleading explanations of the loss. And most damagingly for political opponents of Donald Trump, these actions give credence to the insurgent status of his retro-Republicanism against liberal and left defenders of the political establishment.

Most damaging to the burgeoning left in the U.S. is the deeply ugly character assassination of poor and working-class voters carried out by the urban bourgeois, many from the self-described radical left. People I know and like, but with whom I disagree politically but am working hard to convert, have spent the last three years being derided as traitorous, marginally literate hicks too stupid to know they are pawns of the Kremlin. The irony, if you care to call it that, is that they knew the Russian interference story was cynical bullshit all along while the graduate degree crowd was following every twist and turn as if it were true knowledge.