Writing for RealClearPolitics, Steve Cortes argues that much as birtherism represented the lunatic fringe on the right 10 years ago, Russia mania represents the lunatic fringe on the left today. While Trump may not be as publicly anti-Russian as some would prefer, there’s no way he’s in the Russian pocket.
A reasonable person on either side of the aisle would be hard-pressed to argue Cortes is wrong. Of course, reasonable people don’t feed the felt frenzy, they aren’t what aggrieved people want to read, want to hear.
As an aside, Cortes implicitly admits there were aspects of the Obama public persona and biography which could be interpreted as lending support to the never-proven birther hypothesis.
