We might to be honest, although I think that they've flogged that particular dead horse down to the bone really so it'll probably be the same thing but in a different package. Trouble is that even people who'd willingly believe that Russia actually genuinely influenced the election to the point it tipped the balance against Clinton are getting a bit tired of it now and are probably being asked all sorts of uncomfortable questions like "if election meddling is so bad then why does the US keep doing it?" and "Where's the actual concrete proof that this is more sophisticated than a couple hundred paid agitators working out an industrial unit on the outskirts of Vladivostok?"
They will pick something else though, they have to. And I don't think it'll be an internal thing like BLM or Bernie in the long term - outside weird twitter bubbles that everyone, themselves included, takes far too seriously. BLM or Bernie being blamed raises far, far too many awkward questions when it comes to why the Dems spent so long chasing "moderate" republicans instead of what's historically been their support base of ethnic minorities and people who maybe want some nicer things like not dying of lack of healthcare.
It needs to be an external actor because something needs to take the blame. The dems didn't win this election, they just lost the least badly and there's an important distinction. The Democrat party has utterly, totally shat the bed on this. Not only was Trump unelectable in 2016, he's had an extra four years where he's completely fucked up running the country. He hasn't even managed to raise to the bar of what is, when all the power's stripped away, basically a job no more difficult than a middle management position. After four years it looks like the Dems might squeak a win by the skin of their teeth but they're clearly losing a lot of their voter base they've taken for granted and they've not got the senate.
Now they have two choices really. They can either try to mend some of the damage that their absolute fuckup of a campaign did or they can find someone else to blame. We know they're not going to do the first one, so it'll be the second. An external, foreign agitator would be very handy for them. They might actually default to Russia to be honest, cos the last I heard China were kinda hoping for a Biden win. China might be quite a hard sell.
Honestly, I could easily see a significant segment of dem voters accepting that China's to blame without ever pausing to wonder if the theory makes any sense. After all, China bad.
We might to be honest, although I think that they've flogged that particular dead horse down to the bone really so it'll probably be the same thing but in a different package. Trouble is that even people who'd willingly believe that Russia actually genuinely influenced the election to the point it tipped the balance against Clinton are getting a bit tired of it now and are probably being asked all sorts of uncomfortable questions like "if election meddling is so bad then why does the US keep doing it?" and "Where's the actual concrete proof that this is more sophisticated than a couple hundred paid agitators working out an industrial unit on the outskirts of Vladivostok?"
They will pick something else though, they have to. And I don't think it'll be an internal thing like BLM or Bernie in the long term - outside weird twitter bubbles that everyone, themselves included, takes far too seriously. BLM or Bernie being blamed raises far, far too many awkward questions when it comes to why the Dems spent so long chasing "moderate" republicans instead of what's historically been their support base of ethnic minorities and people who maybe want some nicer things like not dying of lack of healthcare.
It needs to be an external actor because something needs to take the blame. The dems didn't win this election, they just lost the least badly and there's an important distinction. The Democrat party has utterly, totally shat the bed on this. Not only was Trump unelectable in 2016, he's had an extra four years where he's completely fucked up running the country. He hasn't even managed to raise to the bar of what is, when all the power's stripped away, basically a job no more difficult than a middle management position. After four years it looks like the Dems might squeak a win by the skin of their teeth but they're clearly losing a lot of their voter base they've taken for granted and they've not got the senate.
Now they have two choices really. They can either try to mend some of the damage that their absolute fuckup of a campaign did or they can find someone else to blame. We know they're not going to do the first one, so it'll be the second. An external, foreign agitator would be very handy for them. They might actually default to Russia to be honest, cos the last I heard China were kinda hoping for a Biden win. China might be quite a hard sell.
Honestly, I could easily see a significant segment of dem voters accepting that China's to blame without ever pausing to wonder if the theory makes any sense. After all, China bad.
Yeah that's another possibility for sure.