Do the Democrats really believe all the foofaraw about Russian hackers having nearly unlimited power to influence US elections? Is this really going to be the accepted narrative going forward, that it had nothing to do with choosing a terrible candidate and it was just Russian hackers (and evil Nazi misogynist BernieBros) who caused the loss of the most-winnable election in history?

Damn.

In a way I am glad to be living through this moment. I’ve read a lot about historical episodes of collective enforced amnesia and contra-reality narrative formation, and a lot of sociology about group dynamics in times of extreme stress, and a whole lot more about the construction of shared realities, but it’s pretty interesting to get to live through such a major episode of it with so many available research resources. I can learn about huge cognitive flaws in real time with little effort.

If the Russians had as much power as people like Drum believe, and if some pilfered emails no one but a very small percentage of the really small elite/intellectual set even knew about really mattered that much, then it’d be an unprecedented level of engagement and knowledge by the electorate who seemed mainly to be voting on economic issues.

I figure this will last a few years — just like with the “Iraq had WMDs garbage” — and then reality will re-assert itself as it inevitably does.

Still, interesting and instructive to watch. I’m learning tons.