From: Alan <nuh-uh@nope.com>
Newsgroups: alt.politics.trump,alt.politics.liberalism,alt.politics.democrats,alt.politics.usa.republican,alt.fan.rush-limbaugh,can.politics
Subject: Re: "Why It's Hard To Take Democrats And Liberals Seriously on Russia
Date: Mon, 10 Mar 2025 15:34:11 -0700
Organization: A noiseless patient Spider
On 2025-03-09 20:40, AlleyCat wrote:
>
> "Why It's Hard To Take Democrats And Liberals Seriously on Russia"
>
> Democrats lack self-awareness as to their own record regarding Russia,
> argues James Kirchick. This helps explain why conservatives have so much
> trouble taking libral outrage about Russia seriously: Most of the people
> lecturing them for being "Putin's pawns" spent the better part of the past
> eight years blindly supporting a Democratic president, Barack Obama, whose
> default mode with Moscow was fecklessness. This piece originally appeared on
> Politico. You can read Kirchick's related piece-"How the GOP became the party
> of Putin"-here.
So, you find Mr. Kirchick credible, do you?
Here's something more recent if you value his take so much:
'From the moment Donald Trump challenged the validity of President
Barack Obamaâs birth certificate, Mr. Trump has lied more frequently and
egregiously than perhaps any other major figure in American political
history. From the relatively trivial lie that began his administration
(that 1.5 million people attended his inauguration) to the extremely
consequential falsehood that ended it (that the 2020 election was
stolen), his presidency was in large part defined by mendacity.'