Richard Clarke: Why everyone warned about Trumps Russia ties couldnt believe their eyes

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7. Yes, that's a valid point

Just like how deep down, many Americans secretly thought "Wouldn't it be cool if Trump had a snowball's chance of winning? He'd be a laugh riot!" -- Because their minds never let them fully comprehend how Trump the candidate is different from Trump the cartoon character, and what life would be like if the really DID win...

I just think Clarke is giving WAY too much credit to people attributing this to shock or cognitive dissonance... And my shock isn't that the Russians tilted the election, because they've done that in countless places before... My initial shock is that I TOLD everyone this was going to happen and was ignored... Greenwald was saying back in '14 that he had a moral duty to kneecap Hillary, Assange/Greenwald/Snowden tried to rig the races in New Zealand for KimDotcom (which I'd said here on DU was going to be a dress rehearsal for '16) and multiple times in '15 Assange guaranteed he'd sabotage the race if Hillary was the nominee...

My secondary shock is not that the Russians were successful seeing how many useful idiots are at their disposal, it's that they were able to be THIS brazen and THIS obvious without invalidating the results and six months in we still don't have the articles of impeachment scratched out yet...