Hillbot RUSSIA!!! conspiracy theorists are less than 1% of the population. and most of them are senior citizens. That won't make a coup, that won't even make a batallion of martyrs. The armed forces? The CIA? Virginia Heffernan needs a rabies shot stat.

Who squeaked into office on an electoral college technicality.

When the rules don't work out in favor of a Clinton, they become mere technicalities. The "technicality" that Trump supposedly exploited is simply the way the Electoral College works.

a severe case of Putin derangement syndrome.

Here's what she says about the seriously mind fucked wacko Louise Mensch:

@LouiseMensch is the Sy Hersh of our time.

US Media Falls in Love With Unhinged British Witch Who Wants to Bomb Russia

One cannot argue that media dialogue about Russia is in any way serious or rational, so long as mainstream legitimacy is offered to a person who literally thinks Vladimir Putin murdered Andrew Breitbart
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For some time, certain critics have been suggesting that the mainstream press gives a little too much credence to dubious conspiracy theories about Russia, theories which many Democrats have embraced out of their desire to undermine Donald Trump. Liberal commentators like Rachel Maddow and Keith Olbermann are beginning to sound a bit like Glenn Beck during the peak of the chalkboard-years. Any claim about nefarious doings by Vladimir Putin—for instance, that Russia hacked Vermont’s electric grid, or that the Naked Capitalism blog is Russian state propaganda—is spread widely by pundits without particular regard for the actual substantiating evidence.

Of course, one may disagree with this. One may believe that the media’s treatment of the Russia-Trump nexus has been sober and reasonable. But a new data point suggests otherwise: the New York Times recently published a piece on Russian hacking by Louise Mensch. And a world where the Paper of Record publishes Mensch is not a world with a sane public conversation about Russia.
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Second, the press’s standards for Russia commentary are lower than at any point since the Cold War. Required qualifications for opining on Putin or Russia are essentially at the “skimming the Wikipedia entry” level. (It’s not just the Times. MSNBC, too, has regularly given airtime to Mensch, and she will appear on Bill Maher’s show this week.) Liberals are so eager to attack Trump over Russia stories that even a totally fringe conspiracist can have her claims treated as serious and worthwhile contributions to the discourse. In response to Mensch’s op-ed, cultural critic Virginia Heffernan said she “wish[ed] this were book-length” calling Mensch “the Sy Hersh of our time.” Harvard Law School professor Laurence Tribe praised Mensch as “impressive” and “incomparable.”

There’s a useful parallel to the 1979 film Being There, in which Peter Sellers plays a dopey gardener whose aphoristic pronouncements about plants are taken for insightful political metaphors, leading him to become the toast of the D.C. elite. Washington’s notion of wisdom is so vacuous that even a gibbering fool can be taken for a genius if they suit the needs of the political class. Likewise, talk about Russia has gotten so facile, with allegations requiring so little evidence, that a schizophrenic raving about Putin sending radio waves through their dentures could get a permanent gig with MSNBC if they had a PPE degree from Oxford.
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That should tell you everything you need to know about Virginia. There has not been a single anti-Russia, anti-Putin lie she has not fell for, internalized and pushed since Trump got elected despite any being subsequently proven wrong.

but the *primaries* were rotten to the core. Particularly on the D side. Almost all the way back to "smoke filled rooms" - except the dudes in the smoke-filled rooms occasionally agreed on surprisingly decent candidates.