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Wow. A long article by one of the men Mueller indicted. wired.com/story/kostya-a…
1/ I *will* say that the one warning sign in *any* article on the "Trump-Russia scandal" is when someone calls it "Russiagate." Very, *very* early on (late 2016 and early 2017) that name was "tried on" by analysts, but pretty quickly it became a code-word for Trumpist denialists.
2/ The topic is the "Trump-Russia scandal." "Russiagate" isn't a thing—much like "political correctness" is more a catchphrase for the right than a phrase that uses either the word "political" or the word "correctness" with fidelity to their definition. So—that needs to be clear.
3/ To be clear, not knocking the article at this point—just don't want to be seen to be spreading the "Russiagate" meme, and it really is, at this point, a meme, i.e. a quick and dirty way of saying that nothing bad really happened during the election and we're all good, comrade.
