Some of us knew early on the Russia thing was a farce

No, worse than a farce. It was an attempt by people in power to ignore an election that did not go their way, an attempt at overthrowing legally-elected Donald J. Trump.

“For perspective, from the time leading up to the 2016 election through today, I chose to live amongst poor and working-class people of color, with occasional forays into the rural working and middle classes and the urban bourgeois. What became apparent early on is that the audience for the Russian interference story was the urban and suburban bourgeois who had seen their lots by-and-large restored by Barack Obama’s bank bailouts and who had no knowledge of, or interaction with, the 90% of the country that is living, by degree, hand-to-mouth.

“What this implies is that the received wisdom amongst bourgeois Democrats— the bosses, bank managers, academics, realtors and administrative class, looks to be what it is: a combination of class loathing that their ‘lessors’ didn’t perceive the munificent blessing of their electoral choice; mass delusion on the part of self-styled ‘high-information voters’ about who really controls American ‘democracy;’ and studied ignorance of the consequences of the last half-century of bi-partisan neoliberal governance.”

https://www.counterpunch.org/2019/03/27/russia-and-the-democrats/

Link at http://www.woodpilereport.com/

(The Democratic Party is run today by the same people who dictated slavery politics until defeated by Northern aggressors. Today’s Democrats rule by keeping blacks enclosed in urban ghettos, ensuring continued votes and support by making low-income black and brown citizens dependent upon government payments, just as the slaves of ante bellum Democrats were dependent upon owners’ gardens and kitchens.)