The Briefing Room
General Category => Editorial/Opinion/Blogs => Topic started by: EasyAce on May 25, 2018, 05:17:39 pm
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Democrats would rather believe a conspiracy elected Trump than admit Clinton was a terrible candidate
By Erick Erickson
https://www.themaven.net/theresurgent/erick-erickson/a-conspiracy-of-idiocy-FZ6yp4A8k0u76mw4VLQJlA/ (https://www.themaven.net/theresurgent/erick-erickson/a-conspiracy-of-idiocy-FZ6yp4A8k0u76mw4VLQJlA/)
Many people love to concoct grand, elaborate conspiracies to explain the world around them. Instead of realizing they made bad decisions, it must have been some malevolent force out to get them. Instead of recognizing they are surrounded by incompetence, there must be some mysterious force pulling the strings working several steps ahead . . .
. . . The truth is that our intelligence community had signal intelligence clearly showing the Russians wanted to interfere in our electoral processes. Our intelligence officials looked around and saw Paul Manafort and Carter Page were working with Trump and both had ties to Russians. They drew conclusions based on that intelligence. Along came Democrats with a dossier of information suggesting Trump was working with the Russians or being blackmailed by the Russians and the Obama political team overseeing the intelligence community drew the worst possible conclusions by presuming the worst they could about Trump.
Manafort and Page did not stay with Trump through the campaign. It is not really believable that they orchestrated a plot within the Trump team to steal the election. There is no evidence they went outside the campaign to execute the plan. But concurrently, it is true that Donald Trump, Jr. was happy to meet with a Russian for dirt on Hillary Clinton. That is not illegal, but is unethical. The Trump team believed the worst about the Clintons and surely believed the Clinton team would pull out all the stops too.
We are where we are because both sides believed the worst about the other. The Democrats never thought Trump would win and would rather believe a conspiracy theory than believe Clinton was a terrible candidate. Likewise, the Trump fans would rather believe the FBI was really out to get Trump than believe he made some staggeringly stupid hires and people around him made staggeringly unethical decisions. Forrest Gump was right. Stupid is as stupid does.
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Kind of a waste of time article
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Kind of a waste of time youtube channel.
Kind of a waste of time youtube channel.
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