Democrats have a lot to do now but finding their voice challenging Russia's ongoing influence over Trump, US foreign policy more directly chief among them. Great work here fr Rachel Maddow; but consider blocking US investigation into 2016, pro-Brexit/anti-EU, Syria, etc.
2/Apropos of @maddow's great #TrumpRussia pieces last night, here is a column I wrote before the 2016 election about the alignment AT THAT TIME between Putin's world view and Trump's. usnews.com/opinion/articl… Views which also did not exist "in nature" here in the US then.
3/Want to add one other area of weird pro-Russian Trump orientation - his embrace of fossil fuels, dismissal of clean energy, climate change, etc. Yes, US ONLY NATION ON EARTH not in Paris climate accords, but also Trump is now attacking electric cars? electrek.co/2018/12/18/don…
4/So turns out oil producing countries don't like electric cars. And data is now coming in that EV adoption rate far faster than anyone predicted, becoming real threat to OPEC/MBS/Putin 👇So Trump starts attacking American made Chevy EVs? WTF?
5/But this gets to bigger issue - where exactly is Trump acting in natl interest of the US? His econ/tariff plans doing harm to US economy/companies/deficit. He's done damage to US health care system, weakened enviro protections, broken imm system, harmed US relations everywhere
6/As I wrote in 2016, "America First" itself, to use @maddow's term, did not exist "in nature" here in US until Trump. It did however exist in Europe, as a Russian export. usnews.com/opinion/articl… Trumpism's DNA comes from Moscow, and has since its beginning. They are allied.
