Here is what is so terrifying about the Russian involvement in this year's election: the GOP will basically defend it because it brings them into power.
This point needs to be repeated, because it's critical to get beyond this bullshit false equivalency. For every Bernie Bro or Steiniac who was saying that there isn't a dime's worth of difference between Republicans and Democrats? You look like idiots. Absolute simpering, drool-on-yourself idiots.
We have a great deal of evidence - both hard and circumstantial - that Russia wanted Trump to win and worked hard to make that happen. When these allegations are made public, most of the GOP leadership responds by...attacking the CIA. Really?
Paul Ryan and Mitch McConnell are basically willing to let a foreign power fuck about in our elections, because it gets them closer to funneling tax cuts to the richest 1% and deregulating Goldman Sachs and the petrochemical industries.
They literally are willing to see democracy undermined if it means getting their (unpopular) agenda across the president's desk.
Trump will be a terrible president. He will likely - in no particular chronological order - crash the global trade networks, sparking a recession; start an unnecessary war; engage in unprecedented corruption and personal enrichment; undermine public discourse and unravel centuries of established political norms.
And when the bill comes due - providing there is an election worth having - it is incumbent that we don't allow the GOP to divorce themselves from this shitshow.
They own it, because they can't get beyond the zero-sum political discourse of "anything Democrats say must be the opposite of what we want."
Ugh.
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