I generally agree with you but I want to make clear that Russia absolutely did interfere with our elections and has every incentive to do so. I have followed Eastern European geopolitics for a long time, long before the last few years. This is Putin’s M.O. He’s methodical but not clean and stealthy because he doesn’t need to be. He has no accountability and total control over the government, wealth, and the press.

That being said, yes Democrats are using that and Donald Trump’s captured Republican Party as Bogeyman to see themselves as the moral crusaders because Trump and Republicans are so hellbent on being cartoon villains at this point. So the Democrats and especially liberals and progressives right now don’t feel like they need to be introspective and have adopted this bastardized version of intersectionality as a religion. At the very least my values tend to align with those who are left wing but they are being kept in the dark about the nature of what’s being fed to them as basic human rights. People feel like they can’t have conversations and dialogues anymore. Being right is more important than getting it right and I do believe that if we were to get rid of Donald Trump we would have more room for diversity of thought on the left because people could stop seeing him as the one and only enemy who feeds their self-righteousness.