While this piece is more reasonable and nuanced than most of the five-alarm-fire "Russiagate" calls-to-arms, it's still based on a host of ill-founded presumptions. I'll respond to a few in this threadhttp://theweek.com/articles/785934/why-left-needs-wise-growing-trumprussia-scandal …
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The notion that "Russian interference" has caused the death of American democracy is the exactly the kind of overblown nonsense which is central to Russiagate. To accept it is it to accept the core premises which underlie the entire overblown narrative
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In short, you can't really pick and choose elements of the narrative which seem politically felicitous. At the narrative's very base are inescapable, noxious ideological assumptions. The idea that bringing those assumptions into the mainstream could benefit 'The Left' is fanciful
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Fundamentally, "Russiagate" encourages a warped conception of how modern politics is constituted -- elevating fictitious enemies, christening fictitious heroes, sewing paranoia. Pretending that such a state of affairs is ever going to produce fruitful politics seems deluded
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Is it an important issue? Well, it's dominated the public consciousness for 2+ years, so on that level it's "important." But it's also been extremely harmful, in ways that one Twitter thread could never encapsulate. Anyway, this debate is necessary, and it shall (sigh) continue
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no you're right a president who lost by 3 million votes, immediately tried to unilaterally enact laws that violate basic civil rights, attacks the press, lies constantly and capitulates to nations trying to destroy us and our allies is def not a threat to democracy, good point
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He won even though he lost the popular vote thanks to the electoral college, the two nations he's capitulated to the most are Saudi Arabia and Israel both of whom are considered allies, and the democrats would have won if they hadn't sacrificed Democracy for
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Democracy may be beginning to be sacrificed—gerrymandering w/o limit, voter suppression, a SCOTUS seat stolen after almost a yr w/o a hearing, another going to someone who thinks POTUS is above the law, last 2 GOP POTUSes elected after losing popular vote.https://twitter.com/mtracey/status/1021581529498169345 …
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I guess democracy has been threatened at least, and perhaps even stirred up in the face of all the current events. What has been sacrificed has been critical thought and reason. I've been coming back to my senses after having gone out of my mind.
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It's standard fake left politics: dragging people back towards the Dems. There is this illusion that Trump is some intruder into an otherwise peaceful & well-functioning democratic utopia, when in fact he is a product of--the vomit spit up by--the American capitalist system
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