=Michael Tracey: Progressive Take on Russia Hoax==
While the author believes in some kind of amorphic Trump crimes NOT related to Russia, he has a fair take on media failure and the galvanizing effect of the fallout.
"The end result is a grand ironic twist for Trump’s most ardent opponents: Because Democrats and their media allies invested so much political capital in the now-discredited Russia collusion theory, they have not only failed to topple Trump, they’ve actually strengthened his hand immeasurably. There’s just no way to sugarcoat it: Robert Mueller has fully exonerated Trump on the core conspiracy charge that impelled the creation of the special counsel in the first place, and Trump is absolutely justified to celebrate this as a profound humiliation for Democrats and huge swaths of the national media. Heading into a re-election campaign, liberals witlessly gifted him the standing to rightly declare victory over opposition forces that compromised their integrity and abandoned their critical faculties in a vain effort to oust him from power."
http://fortune.com/2019/03/28/trump-2020-russia-no-collusion/?utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=fortunemagazine&xid=soc_socialflow_twitter_FORTUNE