{"id":40482,"date":"2017-10-27T01:00:28","date_gmt":"2017-10-27T05:00:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=40482"},"modified":"2017-10-16T08:09:46","modified_gmt":"2017-10-16T12:09:46","slug":"qotd-russian-meddling-in-us-politics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2017\/10\/27\/qotd-russian-meddling-in-us-politics\/","title":{"rendered":"QotD: Russian meddling in US politics"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>In last week\u2019s decidedly un-jocular \u201cnews\u201dletter, I wrote about how the hypocrisy of the Left\u2019s newfound outrage at Russia\u2019s meddling in our politics can\u2019t be summarized by saying \u201cRomney was right!\u201d when he said Russia was our biggest geopolitical foe in a debate with Barack Obama. Starting with George Kennan\u2019s Long Telegram [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.history.com\/this-day-in-history\/george-kennan-sends-long-telegram-to-state-department\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">link<\/a>], conservatives spent the entirety of the Cold War pointing out that the Russians were undermining American life, and we got mocked and ridiculed for it by self-styled sophisticates who thought such concerns were little more than paranoia. <\/p>\n<p>The ridicule didn\u2019t end with the Cold War (when, by the way, the extent and danger of Russian meddling were <em>much greater<\/em> than they are now). Liberals were so invested in the idea that the political Right made too big a deal about Soviet Communism and that we used our hawkishness as an unfair wedge issue against Democrats that when Mitt Romney said an incandescently true thing about Putin\u2019s Russia, liberals rolled their eyes and then laughed uproariously at Obama\u2019s \u201cthe 1980s called\u201d quip. In other words, they were so married to the myth of their moral and intellectual superiority, liberals preferred to stick with the punch-line than even imagine that reality wasn\u2019t on their side.<\/p>\n<p>Jonah Goldberg, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/article\/452671\/harvey-weinstein-donald-trump-hypocrisy-mitt-romney-binders-full-women\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Binders Full of Asininity&#8221;, <em>National Review<\/em><\/a>, 2017-10-13.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In last week\u2019s decidedly un-jocular \u201cnews\u201dletter, I wrote about how the hypocrisy of the Left\u2019s newfound outrage at Russia\u2019s meddling in our politics can\u2019t be summarized by saying \u201cRomney was right!\u201d when he said Russia was our biggest geopolitical foe in a debate with Barack Obama. Starting with George Kennan\u2019s Long Telegram [link], conservatives spent [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35193,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,53,41,1119,13],"tags":[108,768,806,269,517],"class_list":["post-40482","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history","category-politics","category-quotations","category-russia","category-usa","tag-coldwar","tag-democrat","tag-mittromney","tag-propaganda","tag-republican"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/favicon.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-awW","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40482","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40482"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40482\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40483,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40482\/revisions\/40483"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40482"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40482"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40482"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}