Progressives (Liberals)

I'm suggesting there was likely a "united" effort on the part of the Obama Administration to ensure a Clinton victory in the election despite (and partly motivated by) the already detectable deficiencies in the leadership and effectiveness of her campaign.

Starting with Bengasi and the unexpected performance of Sanders in the Democrat primary a series of events made them aware that the confidently expected Clinton win in the election was not at all a sure thing.

to both protect her and turn the situation against the unexpected emergence of Trump in the Primary.

The discovery and "investigation" of the illicit use of a private (and unsecured) server to support Clinton's e-mails during her term as Secretary of State, together with the emergence of hacked information from the, poorly secured, DNC e-mail server had already yielded an embarrassing and dangerous situation for candidate Clinton,

Interestingly it was the same coterie of senior FBI officials (Comey, McCabe and Strzok) who led both the "investigation" of the Hillary e-mail crimes and the investigation of supposed Trump campaign collusion.

Subsequently released phone messages between Strzok and Lisa Page contained assertions by both that the White House was closely monitoring the whole process, and an "insurance policy" was needed.

Despite Strzok’s extremely inappropriate texting — it’s wildly improper for someone in his position to express animus or favoritism toward a particular candidate — the inspector general found no evidence that Strzok acted on his text to Page.

“Our review did not find documentary or testimonial evidence directly connecting the political views these employees expressed in their text messages and instant messages to the investigative decisions we reviewed,” the IG report states.

I would like to add something to the Clinton/Trump investigations that has disturbed me from the start, but which strangely received virtually no attention from the media - right or left.

That is the question of the origins of the now discredited dossier on Trump.

In October 2015, Fusion GPS was contracted by conservative political website The Washington Free Beacon to provide general opposition research on Trump and other Republican presidential candidates. In April 2016, attorneys for Hillary Clinton's campaign and the DNC separately hired Fusion GPS to investigate Trump, while The Free Beacon stopped its backing in May of 2016

If you knew nothing about the conservative movement, you might be appalled by that kind of deception. But the truth is that this kind of scam is absolutely central to how the American right has operated for decades. It’s not that there aren’t a few con artists on the left; there certainly are. But only the right treats its entire constituency like nothing but marks to be swindled, a few dollars at a time.

It comes from a variety of conservative figures, whether it’s former politicians, pundits or political consultants. All you need is some seed money to buy a list of suckers who have donated to conservative causes or given their names to a publication like Human Events or World Net Daily, and you’re off.

For instance, here’s a story about Dick Morris getting nearly $2 million in donations to fight Barack Obama, virtually none of which went to fighting Barack Obama. Here’s a story about tea party groups paying prominent conservative radio hosts to promote them, and using the proceeds to keep paying the radio hosts. Mike Huckabee uses his email list to hawk scam “biblical” cancer cures. Herman Cain will help you cure your erectile dysfunction. Ben Carson sold “glyconutrients.” [internal links for each claim at site]

This story goes way back to the 1960s, when the rise of the conservative grass roots — and the mailing lists that they produced — created an opportunity for right-wingers of an entrepreneurial bent. As historian Rick Perlstein details, it amounted to a “strategic alliance of snake-oil vendors and conservative true believers ... designed to corral fleeceable multitudes all in one place — and the formation of a cast of mind that makes it hard for either them or us to discern where the ideological con ended and the money con began.”

Nearly half of white Republicans say it bothers them to hear people speaking foreign languages

Not sure if this has been noted earlier but, I mean, for **** sake

Fox host: Democrats protect Rep. Omar because they want “to protect the ability of the left to traffic in anti-Semitism"
Watters: "There's a very strong strand of anti-Semitism on the left that needs to flourish, apparently, and then needs to be protected"

They're all university professors.

Watch Trump Laugh Over a Comment About Shooting Migrants
“How do you stop these people?” Trump asked. An audience member had an idea. “Shoot them,” he yelled, causing the president to laugh.

‘No tolerance whatsoever for the bulls---’: Iowa Dems warn against new Bernie-Hillary wars

...Bernie Sanders’ senior adviser in Iowa, Pete D’Alessandro, said that if in an organizing meeting a supporter reopens complaints from the last election, they’re immediately cut off.

“We can’t keep rehashing 2016 because every time we’re doing it, even at a meeting, we’re not organizing. We’re not knocking on doors,” he said. “2016 is over. It doesn’t do us any good to have blood in the eyes. It’s gone. This is 2020, it’s a different race, it’s a different dynamic. We have to win this time.”

On the eve of the last presidential election, NBC’s “Nightly News” broadcast featured two skinny college students in jackets and ties, discussing the future of American politics. They were co-founders of Students for Trump, a grassroots group that had tapped the social media power of Donald Trump’s populist movement — and of photos of bikini-clad women in MAGA hats — to become the real estate mogul’s standard-bearer on college campuses around the country.

“I see Donald Trump as reviving the Republican Party,” one of them, John Lambert, declared confidently.

Last month, Lambert, now 23, showed up in the news again. This time, he had been arrested in Tennessee on charges of wire fraud. According to the federal government, at the same time he was building a nationwide political network and serving as one of the most visible young faces of Trump’s populist movement, Lambert was also posing online as a high-powered New York lawyer, eventually making off with tens of thousands of dollars in fees he stole from unwitting clients seeking legal services.

Russia did involve itself in the election and did so to damage Clinton and to forward Bush.