{"id":313924,"date":"2017-06-22T01:47:42","date_gmt":"2017-06-22T00:47:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/russia-gate-flops-as-democrats-golden-ticket\/"},"modified":"2017-06-22T01:47:42","modified_gmt":"2017-06-22T00:47:42","slug":"russia-gate-flops-as-democrats-golden-ticket","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/russia-gate-flops-as-democrats-golden-ticket\/","title":{"rendered":"Russia-gate Flops as Democrats\u2019 Golden Ticket"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>Exclusive:<\/strong> The national Democrats saw Russia-gate and the drive to impeach President Trump as their golden ticket back to power, but so far the ticket seems to be made of fool\u2019s gold, writes Robert Parry.<\/p>\n<p>By Robert Parry<\/p>\n<p>The national Democratic Party and many liberals have bet heavily on the Russia-gate investigation as a way to oust President Trump from office and to catapult Democrats to victories this year and in 2018, but the gamble appears not to be paying off.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_22316\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/consortiumnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/IMG_7878.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/consortiumnews.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/lazy-load\/images\/1x1.trans.gif\" data-lazy-src=\"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/IMG_7878-300x225.jpg\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-22316\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/IMG_7878-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/consortiumnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/IMG_7878-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/consortiumnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/IMG_7878-1028x771.jpg 1028w, https:\/\/consortiumnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/IMG_7878-160x120.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\"\/><noscript><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-22316\" src=\"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/IMG_7878-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/IMG_7878-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/consortiumnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/IMG_7878-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/consortiumnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/IMG_7878-1028x771.jpg 1028w, https:\/\/consortiumnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/IMG_7878-160x120.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\"\/><\/noscript><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">A sign at the Women\u2019s March on Washington points out that the demonstration attracted a larger crowd than Donald Trump\u2019s inauguration. Jan. 21, 2017. (Photo: Chelsea Gilmour)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The Democrats\u2019 disappointing loss in a special election to fill a congressional seat in an affluent Atlanta suburb is just the latest indication that the strategy of demonizing Trump and blaming Russia for Hillary Clinton\u2019s 2016 defeat may not be the golden ticket that some Democrats had hoped.<\/p>\n<p>Though it\u2019s still early to draw conclusive lessons from Karen Handel\u2019s victory over Jon Ossoff \u2013 despite his raising $25 million \u2013 one lesson may be that a Middle America backlash is forming against the over-the-top quality of the Trump-accusations and the Russia-bashing, with Republicans rallying against the image of Official Washington\u2019s \u201cdeep state\u201d collaborating with Democrats and the mainstream news media to reverse a presidential election.<\/p>\n<p>Indeed, the Democrats may be digging a deeper hole for themselves in terms of reaching out to white working-class voters who abandoned the party in Pennsylvania, Michigan and Wisconsin to put Trump over the top in the Electoral College even though Clinton\u2019s landslide win in California gave her almost three million more votes nationwide.<\/p>\n<p>Clinton\u2019s popular-vote plurality and the #Resistance, which manifested itself in massive protests against Trump\u2019s presidency, gave hope to the Democrats that they didn\u2019t need to undertake a serious self-examination into why the party is in decline across the nation\u2019s heartland. Instead, they decided to stoke the hysteria over alleged Russian \u201cmeddling\u201d in the election as the short-cut to bring down Trump and his&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/consortiumnews.com\/2017\/06\/21\/russia-gate-flops-as-democrats-golden-ticket\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Exclusive: The national Democrats saw Russia-gate and the drive to impeach President Trump as their golden ticket back to power, but so far the ticket seems to be made of fool\u2019s gold, writes Robert Parry. By Robert Parry The national Democratic Party and many liberals have bet heavily on the Russia-gate investigation as a way [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2524,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-313924","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313924","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2524"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=313924"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313924\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=313924"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=313924"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=313924"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}