This is the only explanation that makes any sense. Sadly.

[kpete]

We must seriously consider idea that conservatives *welcomed* Russian dirty tricks,
to "save" America from becoming a multiracial democracy.

Link to tweet

[Baitball Blogger]

1. Nailed it!

[stillsoleft]

2. What Baitball Blogger said!

[Scarsdale]

48. Yes, they did

McConnell refused to have hearings on the SC vacancy. He said the next president would fill that spot. He KNEW who that would be. His wife got a cushy job out of that. Of course they knew what was going on. Refused to have hearings about this, too, since it would look like "partisan politics" !!! The irony.! Surely the next few elections will help drain the swamp, since those in DC refuse to do it.

[dchill]

3. They will do ANYTHING to win.

Anything.

[Hortensis]

31. This is it. The OP vastly underestimates the right's

authoritarian cohesiveness when gathered behind their leader and how focused they are on destroying their enemy--these days the left in their own country. If all POC simply went "poof," that'd startle them a little, but the bigots among them who needed another target would just shift their enmity to something else and keep shooting.

Maybe sushi eaters. Turns out my unfortunate daughter's sister-in-law, who is about as viciously strong a social con as possible, regards anyone who eats raw fish with real hostility and contempt (family not excluded). Same for those in dozens of other groups she sees as "others," of course.

[yardwork]

4. Oh yes. The white supremacists welcome any help.

Russia is going through its own white supremacist phase so in that respect the countries are natural allies. Look at other similarities - Putin has launched an attack on gay people and women's rights at the same time. It's all about consolidating power and whipping up a base.

[madaboutharry]

5. That is indeed sad.

There is no stopping the evolution of human history. The world will become more multiracial as time moves on. The world that republicans are nostalgic for is long gone and it is, thankfully, never coming back.

[golfguru]

28. We all descended from "Lucy" in Africa

and after a few more millennia, we will all look the same, due to human mobility now.

[LaydeeBug]

6. Yep. I've been saying this since Election night...the KGOPB sees diversity as UnAmerican. nt

[dalton99a]

14. It's plain as day - in words and action

[lapfog_1]

7. Republicans, all of them, and all non-republican Trump voters

are a clear and present danger to humanity.

Our one and only planet is changing... changing in ways that are incompatible with a large number of species of life... one of which is human. And humans, all of us, are responsible for this change.

However, some of us are aware of this and want to see rapid actions to preserve the present state of the planet... and reverse the damage that has been done.

And then there are the republicans and Trump voters who could care less, even if it condemns their grandchildren and great grandchildren to walk on a planet that is less beautiful, less hospitable, and in danger of killing those grandchildren (no matter how rich they are).

These people are my mortal enemy. The mortal enemy of my family.

That their leaders have risen to power through treason, deceit, and quirks of our constitution is appalling and criminal.

I only hope that we are strong enough to remove their leaders and put them in jail... and any who still support them. And we do it in time to prevent the ending of humanity.

Does this sound alarmist and radical... yes... but we tried reasoned debate, we tried to get them to listen to science, to be data driven in their decision making, to look out for humanity. And they have shown themselves to be intentionally ignorant and willfully criminal in voting into power the evil that is now in Washington D.C.

We can debate the other things... military spending, health care, taxes and economics. We can't debate climate change or the environment.

[BlancheSplanchnik]

44. This is so eloquent and timely. It needs to be an OP itself.

As for alarmist and radical, I don't have a problem with that at this point.

[JustAnotherGen]

53. ITA with Blanche

Excellent.

[Raster]

8. Absolutely! Unfortunately certain powers that be...

... determined the Russia and Putin were the "Great White Hope." It now appears that the main leadership of the GOP, ESPECIALLY McConnell, Ryan and Chaffetz, and the "Freedom Caucus" Let Russian Interference Happen On Purpose (LRIHOP).

[Fantastic Anarchist]

37. It's ironic that the Nazis would have sent Putin to a camp ...

... since he's a subhuman of Slavic ancestry. Now, he's a white nationalist working in tandem with our white nationalists to bring down the United States. Something Hitler could never do.

[Mc Mike]

9. Yep, anything for a 'win'.

Brutal strongman dictators, machaivellian commie bosses, murderous russkie secret police state agents, bugged out one-foot-in-the-grave mafiya guys with nothing to lose -- they're all a o k with the repugs.

The only real enemies the repugs have are their political opponents, and the 90% of the American public the repugs want to screw.

And they'll embrace anybody who will help them defeat their 'real' enemies.

[delisen]

10. Agreed. More loyal to their subculture than to country or humankind. nt

[retrowire]

11. I think I've always seen it that way lol nt

[raging moderate]

12. Proudest moment of McConnell's Life.

McConnell said the proudest moment of his life was the moment last year when he told Obama that the Republicons would not let Obama exercise his Constitutionally mandated right to name the next Supreme Court justice. What is this but the crowing of a white-supremacy champion?

[Scarsdale]

49. McConnell

is USELESS. All he has done is obstruct. He has no love of country, only his bank account. Slimebag, who managed to fool the rubes in Kentucky. They should ask themselves what he has done for them? He said his one goal was to make President Obama a one term president. Thankfully, he failed at that. Now look at the clown he DOES approve of!

[joet67]

13. Yep. They are complicit. nt

[IronLionZion]

15. Way Too late

America is a lot more multiracial than even many educated liberal people think.

My favorite are those who are worried that whites will become a minority soon. Why? Are minorities treated badly in this country or something?

[tomp]

35. lovely irony you exposed there. nt

[Fast Walker 52]

38. I agree-- it is a lot more deeply embedded than most people realize

especially inbred retards like Trump and Bannon

[NewJeffCT]

50. If you watch Fox News or One America

you'd think whites - especially Christian whites - are under attack and persecuted.

[IronLionZion]

54. And people who are under attack

need to defend themselves with pre-preemptive strikes and stand their ground.

[heaven05]

16. +++ nt

[0nirevets]

17. Sorry, but that's not it.

America is already a multiracial democracy. What the Republicans want, all they've ever wanted, is permanent Republican control of US government. Obviously they'll stop at nothing to get that.

[brush]

32. They're been trying that for decades, also along with that, to get rid of FDR's...

New Deal programs and LBJ's Great Society programs.

Something always gets in the way though.

This time it's trump's stupidity, just when they get control of the House, the Senate and potentially SCOTUS.

[yallerdawg]

18. The string that ties it all together!

Who are the Americans who have refused to condemn or even acknowledge Russian interference in our election?

That is called tacit approval if not encouragement and support amounting to treason, betrayal of our country!

In all these "confessions," has one campaign or staff advisor remembered telling any Russian to stop, or all we are going to get is just that one who says, "No, I can't have lunch with you?"

[LakeArenal]

19. The scariest.. How many of them are on the Supreme Court

[Bernardo de La Paz]

20. Hillary was running. And winning.

We must seriously consider idea that conservatives *welcomed* Russian dirty tricks,
to "save" America from becoming a multiracial democracy.

Strike "multiracial" and substitute "multi-gender" or "gender-neutral" or "equally gendered". The US already had a black President, elected twice.

We must seriously consider the idea that conservatives welcomed Russian dirty tricks to "save" America from becoming an equally gendered democracy.

Unlike Canada where Prime Minister Trudeau announced a gender-balanced cabinet with the statement "Because it's 2016" ...

Because in America it's 1956, the not-so hidden meaning of "Make American Great again".

[BobTheSubgenius]

36. It wasn't just what Trudeau said, but the way he said it,

and in the context in which it arose. It was almost a "Of course. WTF did you think?"

It was one of my proudest moments in recent years. I don't think he has the chops to be a policy maven and a real FORCE as was his father, but I have hopes. He has buckets of charisma, though....that's for sure.

[NewJeffCT]

52. Charisma counts for a lot

in this day & age.

[0rganism]

21. yep. and if they have their way, this will be the end of it

back to 1850 with ye all

[Skittles]

22. they were never going to let Hillary win

or Bernie, or anyone but Trump

[Amaryllis]

23. Lots of reasons besides that for them to welcome Russian tricks. Anything to win and

enforce their agenda which is about much more than just race.

[El Viejo]

24. This makes MORE sense....

Trump can't finance his ventures conventionally because of all his bankruptcies. Western banks want nothing to do with him. So where is his financing coming from? Many speculate that Putin is the world's wealthiest individual, worth over 200 billion. If Trump is in debt to the KGB boy, that would totally explain this entire episode.

[Achilleaze]

25. sigh. republicans against America

disgusting

[smirkymonkey]

26. K&R

[alfredo]

27. When I was a kid I heard whites complain that the blacks are taking over.

That was back in the 50's and early 60's.

We attribute supernatural powers to those we fear.

[Different Drummer]

29. Exactly right. n/t

[Ilsa]

30. GOP and followers are afraid of cultural changes, they

Can't keep up. Successes of women, minorities, GLBT, etc in getting laws changed, protection from discrimination, even financial success has them "buggy."

[pansypoo53219]

33. willing to kill the economy t o defeat obama in 2012. why not.

they cheat to get power. at any cost. even allowing a unstable crank.

[Nitram]

34. Excellent observation. I entirely agree.

Trump was elected by people afraid of whites becoming a minority.

[58Sunliner]

39. It all comes down to money and power.

I find it interesting that men often enough just ignore the blatant sexism and misogyny in our political system. It isn't just about race.

[zentrum]

40. The undealt with

.....history of white supremacy and privilege is eating at the core of the country. The civil war keeps morphing into new forms. Bannon is the Confederacy which is now overtly in the WH. 16o years later.

It's horrifying.

[Zing Zing Zingbah]

41. Also important to them that men be in charge and not women. n/t

[WePurrsevere]

47. I've long felt that we're watching the death throes...

of white 'christian' patriarchy in the US. The more threatened some heterosexual 'christian' whites feel, especially some males, the more they'll stop at NOTHING to 'win' what they see as a battle for (racial, gender & 'moral') supremacy.

They wrap themselves up in the American flag and call themselves 'christians' while not realizing (or in some cases not caring) that they are pushing an agenda that's the antithesis of what those things truly mean and stand for.

[Zing Zing Zingbah]

55. Isn't it interesting that Christian leaders have aligned themselves with Trump?

It shows how little they actually care about the Christian part. White male power is the most important thing to them. The Christian part is just a ruse to con the rest of us into playing along nicely while the white guys control the show.

[WePurrsevere]

57. It's the fundamentalist Christians that do, not Progressive ones.

The fundies have the biggest mouths and, IMO, are the least Gospel oriented and Christ-like. The Progressive clergy, Christian and non, are pretty outspoken against Trump much as Jimmy Carter has been. The problem is that those on the right, like Pat Robertson and Franklin Graham, are loud and make crazy statements that the press just can't seem to resist.

[Zing Zing Zingbah]

58. Yes, I know it is the fundies

It shows were their priorities lie. They such a self-righteous bunch.

[WePurrsevere]

59. Yes, it does. nt

[Doreen]

42. To make it simple, the Republicans who want this are traitors.

[leanforward]

43. This is a first

I had not thought about all of this dRumpf BS and his Alt Right supporters being the reason.

I believe in diversity. However, I can see where a lot of citizens might think otherwise.

Is it possible that many of our elected representatives are afraid of diversity? That helps to see voter suppression by gerrymandering and the current peoples representatives who can't take town halls. Furthermore, they can't take change thru diversity. Maybe this is why many of the GOP representatives are afraid to meet and change.

I am a loyal citizen, in opposition to pRezident dRumpf and any GOP lemming.

As a thought, in this past election, there were states who voted in the electoral college majority for dRumpf. There were states who voted in the majority of Hillary. A majority of citizens voted for Hillary and, to me, those states in the majority of those states that voted for Hillary represent all of the Hillary voters that lost their vote due to the electoral college.

The electoral college is the equivalent to gerrymandering.

[Mike Nelson]

45. I remember...

...Trump publically asked the Russians to hack Hillary, in cooperation with the Republicans' campaign. The crime was not a secret. News events show they were working together.

[JI7]

46. a black man actually becoming president is something many of them could not stand

especially when he was re-elected.

these people convinced themselves he was the worst ever and had ruined everything. it's just fucking bizarre what fucking world they are living in or seeing.

[spanone]

51. K&R...

[Gothmog]

56. Great tweet