It takes some next level cognitive dissonance to read an article where a republican party chairman is noted as confirming the story, and then respond by saying that it's all a Democratic hoax.
I'm saying that the article and general character of these types of allegations fall in line with the previous four years of frantic searching for the magic phrase or story that'll finally banish Trump. It's more desperation than reporting.
"Bush derangement syndrome" they called it with W.
Republicans were like this with Clinton.
I don't remember it before that. But it's been growing worse and worse with each president since Clinton.
Since parties largely lack an ideological foundation and their constituencies aren’t attached, they need to portray things as pure disaster and make clear will-to-power arguments, cast their opponents as devils, etc.