On one level, the problem with the “Trump as Russian dupe” formulation is that it implicitly but dramatically downplays the severity of Trump’s corruption and the threat it poses to the country. We now know that the lie about Ukrainian interference has been a mainstay of self-absolving Russian propaganda for years. This has broader consequencesThe Post reports that much of the GOP has now adopted the false narrative about Ukraine, in league with Trump. AD“Trump, his administration and the GOP have made a conscious choice to align themselves with Putinism,” Rothkopf told me. Trump’s degradations have forced us to grapple with the correct language to describe the moment in all kinds of ways.

Source: Washington Post December 04, 2019 15:29 UTC