The right has Obama birth certificate conspiracies, the left has Russian election conspiracies. Different sides of the same stupid coin.
One was rather irrelevant, while the other will result in more distant relations with our Cold War rival, serious witch-hunting, and most importantly: further polarization of the U.S. political climate.
"You lie!" was such a telling moment.
The GOP basically decided that Kenyan-born interloper was illegitimate and thus everything he did was too.
Remember, birtherism was relegated to the fringe (basically just Orly Taitz) until Trump revived it in 2011 and nearly started beating Romney in the polls. Sure enough, the same thing happened when he called Mexicans and illegal immigrants rapists and murderers.
People are fooling themselves if they think a big part of Trumps ascendancy isn’t pure racial animus.
If they wanted to keep decent relations they shouldn’t have invaded Ukraine and shot down an airliner.