When people learn that Russia hoax was a Democrat scam

 Andrea Widburg:

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For seven years now, Brand has done a one-man video podcast that looks at news and social issues from his self-admitted leftist viewpoint.  He's got almost 4 million subscribers, so he has a bully pulpit for his ideas.  The problem for Brand of late is that, while he may be a leftist, in his own way, he's intellectually honest.  In the crazy world of 2021, that's making it difficult for him to maintain a pure leftist attitude.  He's discovering that the people he admired and supported don't just have feet of clay, but are also truly terrible people.

Six days ago, Brand had his mind blown (call it swallowing a red pill) when he discovered that the entire Russiagate scandal that ran for most of Trump's presidency and seriously damaged his ability to govern was a Clinton hoax.  The video is only 15 minutes long.  Brand leads with his conclusion: he's a leftist and no fan of Trump, but he just had his mind blown.  He is "in awe, gobsmacked, flabbergasted, and startled" by what he learned.  Continue to listen to him, and you'll see a man in the beginning stages of disillusionment, long may it continue:

(Incidentally, have you noticed that the leftists' problem isn't that Russia is totalitarian, because it's always been totalitarian?  Their real problem is that Putin is a garden-variety oligarch rather than a communist.  They liked the Soviet Union.)

I've long believed that the only way to change people's minds politically is for them to have a moment when they realize that their political party or team is lying to them.  I had my epiphany when I realized that NPR, in the 1990s, routinely lied about Israel.  My mother, who was very stylish, had her political epiphany when the media tried to tell her that Michelle Obama was, in terms of fashion, a second Jackie Kennedy.  (Remember the banana dress?  Jackie O wouldn't have worn that.)

Everybody has his truth.  Show people they've been tricked, and they will push back.  Russell Brand is going to cling to his leftist values, but he's going to continue to turn on the Biden administration because he'll realize that the American Democrat party, behind the wall of words about diversity, equality, equity, and tolerance, is just another totalitarian movement bent on taking away the freedoms that Brand depends upon for his political activism.

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It was one of the biggest political frauds of all time.  It is about time the rest of the world wakes up to how devious and dishonest the people at the top of the Democrat party are.  It wasn't just Clinton and those she hired to push this fraud.  Democrats retook the house pushing this fraud in 2018 and used their position to try to impeach Trump even though they knew the Russia claims were a hoax.  They are dishonest to their core.  Adam Schiff was pushing the hoax in hearings and he knew the intelligence did not support his story.