I don't think the Trumpers actually believe an enemy interfered with our election process. They can't afford to, psychologically, because it would be an admission that their power is illegitimate. We all know how sensitive they are on that subject! They need to believe they are part of an overwhelming majority to morally justify the constitutional corners they're cutting in order to get their program passed. They must believe that the majority of the country looks and thinks like the people they hang out with, and everyone else is either a fool or a criminal. This is why they must believe they lost the popular vote only because of massive Democratic poll fraud. It is essential to their view of reality.

No, the real traitors here are those Republicans who know better, who know exactly what happened, and why, and still choose to look the other way because they want that tax cut, because they want to shut down the EPA and Obamacare, because they feel recognizing global warming is a threat to their personal financial position, because they believe that ANYTHING they do or support is justified because of their moral and intellectual superiority.

RL, the reason I continue to harp on this point is because I believe it is vitally important to focus our analysis on the true root of our political dysfunction. We all know the Trump mystique is based on scapegoating, demagoguery and fear, ignorance and hate, rac-, nativ-, jingo-, fundamental-, militar- and anti-intellectual- ism. But these are all psychopathologies. But Fascism itself is the result of conscious decisions by rational and unscrupulous men.

Trump is an ass, and so are his supporters, but the bulk of the Republican Party knows that perfectly well and they STILL are willing to sell their country out for their own personal short-term gain, not because of a moral or intellectual committment. And THAT, is the very definition of treason.