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New from me: RIP, Russiagate via @thenation thenation.com/article/rip-ru…
"The outcome is no surprise to those who scrutinized the facts as they emerged. Time and again, the available evidence undermined the case for such a conspiracy... A minimally responsible media and political class would have acknowledged this reality."
"Instead, leading voices... promoted Russiagate by ignoring the countervailing evidence and those who pointed it out. They filled in the evidentiary holes with supposition, innuendo, and outright falsehood."
"That helps to explain the sizable number of discredited or retracted media reports that advanced the notion of a Trump-Russia plot, culminating in the final collapse of that narrative."
"With that [Trump-Russia conspiracy] narrative no longer sustainable, those organizing against Trump have the opportunity to create an opposition centered not on a spy-thriller plot, but instead on challenging the harmful policies that Russiagate overshadowed."
"As some of us [left] skeptics... warned, the faith in this conspiracy theory not only sidelined critiques of Trump’s actual policies, but would benefit him if it didn’t pan out...This massive gift to Trump should be grounds for a reckoning among those who presented it to him."
