Democrats Chant "U.S.A." on the House Floor

Two very good posts this morning on mounting Russiagate hysteria are aggregated by Niqnaq in "caitlyn [sic] plus moon of alabama on the lemmings." All I needed to know about the ballooning Russophobic lunacy of the Democratic Party is contained in a story by Nicholas Fandos and Sheryl Gay Stolberg, "Republicans Block Anti-Putin Resolutions Before Senate Approves One Rebuke," that was published in Friday's paper:

Republicans on the House Intelligence Committee voted down a request to subpoena testimony from the State Department interpreter who accompanied Mr. Trump into his private meeting with Mr. Putin in Helsinki, Finland. And on the House floor, Republicans blocked a Democratic effort to add hundreds of millions of dollars in grant funding for election security to a spending bill.

“The flashing red light calls us to action,” said Representative Steny H. Hoyer of Maryland, the No. 2 House Democrat. “Surely we can rise above pandering to party and Putin to act on behalf of our freedom and our security.”

Mr. Hoyer’s remarks stirred Democrats to chants of “U.S.A.” on the House floor.

As MoA explains in his post, " 'Progressives Are Putin Stooges' - How Centrist Democrats Help To Reelect Trump," Russophobia is fundamentally about keeping the Democratic Party safely neoliberal, corporatist, and militarist.

It can't work because the party has already passed through Clinton and Obama phases -- the one explicitly neoliberal and the other faux-progressive -- and whether voters can articulate it or not it is going to take something different, namely, a candidate who demands "Medicare for All," or the end of the Israeli occupation of Palestine, or any of a number of legitimately progressive policies the public has not seen enacted in decades.