emptywheel

Um. You mean like Steele paying RU spies for dirt on Trump? You might want to be very careful how you wave that accusation around.

Did Steele’s sources steal Trump’s emails and give them to Steele and then the whole internet? I guess I missed that.

It’s a problem with 280 characters, not the word. But yes, context matters. “Colluding” with spies who stole your opponents emails > “colluding” with an oppo researcher > “colluding” with U.S. Bank arena to schedule a rally.

It’s not my word, I didn’t foist it on to the discourse, but I think people who stridently object to it are being a bit obtuse.

I think when "collusion" was first being tossed around, it meant: did the Trump campaign criminally conspire with the Russians to hack DNC/Podesta emails? Once people mostly abandoned that line, "collusion" has expanded greatly since then to the point of meaninglessness.

Some people may have meant it that way. That would be really bad. But lesser forms of collusion (cooperation whatever) are also bad.