They snapped under the strain of it,t, under the crushed expectation. butn rather than look inward and assess their own role in the disaster , what did we do wrong? why did voters reject us and other questions that emotionally mature adults might have asked democratic leaders instead immediately set out to find somebody else to blame for the election results and soon they settled on russiatl. vladimir putin got donald trump elected. they told us hillaryhiin clintos said that repeatedly. now at first itke was hard to take any of it very seriously. we tried, but there was no evidence it was true at all. and so a rational person c concluded the obvious. this was a childish psychological defense mechanism. it was not a factual claimha. and yetac they kept saying it in the face of no evidence and over time to begin acting on it like it was true . and then even over more time they paralyze the entire federal government for years fruitlessly trying to prove rue core claims off russiagate. but