I have thought about this issue a wee bit today. I do think that there are a lot- and I do mean *a lot*- of people that have gone too far to be able to turn back now. I think I was internally addressing the Russiagate farce with the simplified view of "is it true or is it false", but I was ignoring how it is also an issue central to a leftists' political identity and reasoning, which is are extremely fragile things. After covid, having your kids mutilated , having to maybe face that you have killed yourself by getting jabbed, needing to justify that you allowing your child to be sexually perverted by others... all while you stood back like a coward or because you wanted to be part of the "cool kids' table". I doubt that they will be able to face the realization that there was a moment in time that if they had just acted like sane adults, instead of acting like a bunch of high school mean girls by ganging up on somebody because it was the "cool thing to do", then maybe shit wouldn't be so bad; that perhaps if, instead of allowing themselves to be swept up and carried out to sea upon a tide of obvious bullshit, they had chosen to stand the gap for reasons of personal integrity or truth- maybe things could be different; or, that the entire time they thought they were rebelling they were actually being herded like sheep. These people allowed themselves to be lied to, time-and-time again. These people **need**, in their heads, Trump to be a Russian agent to exonerate themselves and shield them from the reality they don't want to see. They kind of remind me of the joke that ends with the bear telling the hunter "I'm starting to think that you don't come 'round here for the hunting".