Imo, according to what’s been outted so far, and assuming it’s all legit, the dossier as “insurance” finally makes sense to me.
The Steele Dossier “insurance” didn’t get trotted out until immediately *after* the Italian plant job failed.
So, it’s looking now like the Italian plant job was plan A and the dossier was the fallback plan B.
Makes sense. My thought is the DS had several plans. Some we don’t know about yet. Some never took place. The Dems have been doing this for years. Never expected Trump to win. Hopefully, he will make them pay dearly!