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Two years of investigation by Special Counsel Robert Mueller — whose report is anticipated any day now — and by numerous congressional committees have failed to produce evidence to substantiate the claim Trump colluded with Vladimir Putin to win the 2016 election.

The center-left party establishment had the resources to push back, and to maintain control. What it lacked was the will, the leadership, and ultimately the composure. The center-left convinced itself that the election must have been stolen — by Comey, or by Russia, or by “fake news” — and that Trump represented a new Hitler, a potential dictator. Impeachment became an obsession for major party donors and even among the intellectuals in the Clintons’ orbit.

The party establishment became so obsessed with Trump, Russia, and impeachment that it failed to develop an alternative vision, a set of policies that could compete to provide a better life for ordinary Americans (who are, it turns out, doing better than ever under Trump). Into that vacuum came Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Pramila Jayapal, and other far-left ideologues offering utopian socialist policies like the “Green New Deal” and “Medicare for All.”

Terrified of the momentum the young progressives had seized, the party establishment hardly pushed back. Instead, almost all of the presidential candidates embraced the new, absurd policies.

While obsessing about “Russia collusion,” the Democratic establishment has lost control of its party. Only defeat will allow new, wiser liberals to set aside the far-left and restore sanity.

SOURCE: https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/03/22/blue-state-blues-how-the-russia-collusion-hoax-has-hurt-the-democratic-party/