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Exclusive: The FBI\u2019s Russia indictments last week have whipped Democrats and the mainstream media into a frenzy but the \u201cscandal\u201d may be collapsing under its own weight, writes Daniel Lazare.<\/p>\n

By Daniel Lazare<\/p>\n

Fads and scandals often follow a set trajectory. \u00a0They grow big, bigger, and then, finally, too big, at which point they topple over and collapse under the weight of their own internal contradictions. \u00a0This was the fate of the \u201cMe too\u201d campaign, which started out as an expos\u00e9 of serial abuser Harvey Weinstein but then went too far when Babe.net published a story<\/a> about one woman\u2019s bad date with comedian Aziz Ansari. \u00a0Suddenly, it became clear that different types of behavior were being lumped together in a dangerous way, and a once-explosive movement began to fizzle.<\/p>\n

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