h/t Instapundit
[PJMedia] So imagine our surprise when the left, after their defeat in November 2016, decided it was all the Russian's fault, and went from unfounded accusations of "hacking the elections" which seem to indicate that Russia had hacked the vote gathering or counting apparatus (they didn’t) to claims that Russia had, somehow, hacked our national psyche with their few purchased ads on Facebook, their trollish comments on political blogs, and their organizing of a half dozen demonstrations.
...Even then, it is almost impossible to understand why they think this helped Trump, since ads, demonstrations and probably (not sure since the Russian IP ones on my blog were uniformly either crazy-religious or racist. Neither of which, btw, tracks with supporting Trump, really) the trolling were on both sides of the political spectrum.
Almost impossible, but not impossible if you realize two things about the left:
They have no conceptual model under which they fail. They simply never expected another Republican would ever be elected president, and though I’m not willing to spend time looking, I’m sure you can find dozens of articles saying that.
...They’re born and bred oikophobes. ALL other countries are better than the US. All of them. But Russia is particularly good because most of these red-diaper babies or their parents were raised on the idea that Russia had founded the perfect communist state. Even after the Soviet Union fell, they lamented "the good guys lost" and even now if you want to wind one of them up, any mention of the Stalinist massacres brings foaming at the mouth denial. So of course, if some mastermind could be really sneaky and "hack" America, it must be Russia. And as they all know the "good guys" lost in Russia too, hence, of course, they might sabotage them here.
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