Posted on 03/07/2020 7:48:11 AM PST by Kaslin
The Coronavirus isnt the only thing thats spreading.
Hysterical leftists cant let go of the delusion that Donald Trump is president because of sinister machinations by unspecified Russians -- the same Russians that Sleepy Joe Biden believes are messing with his electioneering.
Biden -- who got badly clipped in the Iowa caucuses by Bernie Sanders, told Face the Nation that The Russians dont want me to be the nominee because they like Bernie, the Fidel-snuggler from Vermont.
Channeling his best third person Tricky Dick, Biden added:
"They spent a lot of money on bots on Facebook and they've been taken down saying Biden is a bad guy. They don't want Biden running No one's helping me to try to get the nomination."
But the Russians apparently changed their minds. Bernie got clipped on Tuesday, losing badly to Sleepy Joe -- who sometimes seems to forget that its 2020, not 1920. People dont play phonographs for their kids anymore -- and Russia hasnt been the Soviet Union for going on 30 years.
Blaming this -- blaming everything -- on the Russians is becoming a kind of lunatic default for the coming-apart-at-the-wheels left; a comforting explanation for political failure in 2016 and, far worse, pushback on the cultural front. The left doesnt want to believe that Americans are becoming tired of Wokeness, of being accused by hysterics of phobias (homo, Islamo, you-name-it-o) as a technique to shout down disagreement by literally shouting.
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
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Nothing new.
Extraordinary Popular Delusions and The Madness of Crowds [Charles MacKay]
https://www.econlib.org/library/Mackay/macEx.html?chapter_num=1#book-reader
Mass hysteria is the favorite liberal tool for control.
Great book. From the Children’s Crusade to the Tulip Mania to the Poisoners... Well written and well worth the read.
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