Why are there so many on the Left denying or justifying the Russian hacks?

[TreasonousBastard]

6. I keep pointing to confirmation bias...

It's the tendency of human nature to misinterpret facts and use emotions and unproven beliefs in making judgments. Look it up-- there's been plenty written about it lately.

And there is also this, from Wikipedia:

Proof by assertion, sometimes informally referred to as proof by repeated assertion, is an informal fallacy in which a proposition is repeatedly restated regardless of contradiction.[1] Sometimes, this may be repeated until challenges dry up, at which point it is asserted as fact due to its not being contradicted (argumentum ad nauseam).[2] In other cases, its repetition may be cited as evidence of its truth, in a variant of the appeal to authority or appeal to belief fallacies.[citation needed]

This fallacy is sometimes used as a form of rhetoric by politicians, or during a debate as a filibuster. In its extreme form, it can also be a form of brainwashing.[1] Modern politics contains many examples of proof by assertions. This practice can be observed in the use of political slogans, and the distribution of "talking points", which are collections of short phrases that are issued to members of modern political parties for recitation to achieve maximum message repetition. The technique is also sometimes used in advertising.[3]

Goebbels, Lenin, and a few others are credited with saying that if you repeat a lie often enough, it becomes the truth. Whoever said it, it is true.