NYT: Losing The Pres Election Drove Democrats To Start Believing In Conspiracy -
Even the NYT sees what is going on with the leftness and how they have become unhinged. Its Official.....the leftness has a Syndrome. A Trump derangement Syndrome.
(Or How Trump Derangement Syndrome Is Real)......
Conservatives and right-leaning voters are often the subject of ridicule concerning the peddling of conspiracy theories. The deluge of fake news stories has been a subject of discussion after Hillary Clinton’s shocking loss to Donald Trump. President Trump has used the phrase to go after news organizations that have gone off the reservation. Stories about the MLK Jr. bust being removed from the Oval Office, Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin tossing an old lady out of her home over 27¢, and Trump renaming black history month all have something in common. They’re fake news stories.
But as Democrats lick their wounds, ready more dumpsters to set on fire, and whine incessantly about their candidate getting beat, they too have clung to conspiracy theories for comfort. The Democratic Party is out of power in Washington, 69/99 state legislatures are under GOP control, and two-thirds of the governorships are Republicans as well. In the last eight years, over 1,000 Democratic congressional, state legislature and governor seats have been lost to Republicans. I would need crazy stuff to help me cope too I guess—and for these insufferable politically correct snowflakes, it seems conspiratorial drivel is their source of solace. Republicans aren’t immune to it. The New York Times reported on a study, which says, shocker—the losing side of an election tends to drift more to the insane when it comes to news consumption.
The main entrée for the Left is that Russia hacked the election. The Kremlin did deploy a prolonged and sustained propaganda campaign, which saw state-funded media outlets and trolls flood social media with insane stories, but it didn’t play a pivotal role in the election. Moreover, the Clinton campaign accepted the result; the Obama White House viewed the results as a reflection of the will of the people, and the Department of Homeland Security said that no spikes in malicious cyber activity were seen on election night. Still, a majority of Democrats polled last month said that Russia hacked the election results. A social media propaganda deluge and messing with vote tallies are different things, with the former certainly not being a hack. So, to be clear again—Russia did not hack the election (which is also virtually impossible). Brendan Nyhan had more (via NYT) [emphasis mine]:
[…since the election, there has been a noticeable increase in the flow of dubious and unsupported claims among liberals. One widely circulated post on Medium portrayed the Trump administration’s fumbling rollout of a travel ban in late January as an elaborate “trial balloon for a coup d’état.” Brooke Binkowski, managing editor at the rumor-tracking site Snopes, recently told The Atlantic that she has been seeing more false reports aimed at liberals or from liberal sources — “a lot of dubious news, a lot of wishful-thinking-type stuff.”
Even some prominent liberals like Robert Reich, the former Secretary of Labor under Bill Clinton, seem open to conspiracy theories of the sort typically espoused by figures like Alex Jones and Glenn Beck. (After the recent violent demonstration at the University of California at Berkeley, Mr. Reich raised the possibility that the far right “was in cahoots” with the agitators, writing a blog post titled “A Yiannopoulos, Bannon, Trump Plot to Control American Universities?”)]
So, Trump Derangement Syndrome actually is a thing. Additionally, it also shows the Left’s appalling inability to accept the two facts: 1) Trump is president; 2) Hillary Clinton was a terrible, dishonest, inauthentic, and untrustworthy candidate who fostered her own demise through her reckless decisions, namely an unapproved and unsecure email server, from which she conducted all of her official business as secretary of state.
It wasn’t the Russians who defeated Clinton, my fellow liberals. It was Lady Macbeth herself......snip~
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/mattve...sense-n2286588
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Originally Posted by Cigar
