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[Michael Lee Bailey]

You make many valid points. It would be wrong to hold all Russians or USians responsible for the actions of the Russian or USian state.

However - the article isn’t very convincing imho.

My main objection is that McGovern doesn’t share much detail nor suggest where to find data proving his assertion about Russiagate. That would be interesting.

Also the article locks up after each paragraph, making it nearly unreadable

Frequent interruptions for ads for a Trump Derangement Syndrome t-shirt didn’t help either.

Other points -

It’s frustrating that Democratic campaigning wasted time on the Russian connection when Trump’s public record, corruption, platform, utterances were all on display offering opportunities for vigorous, hotly pursued rebuttal.

(Like when Senate objections on Kavanagh focused on historical sex crimes - and didn’t hammer on hard evidence that he repeatedly lied, consequential lies, in previous government positions)

Democratic platform and accomplishments also needed to be trumpeted. They really are different and better - not perfect, but much better.

Appointing Republican Merrick Garland who proceeded to slow-walk J6 and tease prosecution of Trump year after year - questionable

Timid pushback on Gaza from Biden was still better than Trump cheering Israel on. That said, DNC needed at least one Palestinian on stage.

Succession planning for Biden should have begun in November 2020.