Congressional Republicans agree with Democrats that Russia’s hacking of Democratic emails merits investigation. But however troubling Moscow’s election-season mischief-making might have been, there’s no reason to assume the results of the presidential vote itself were in any way unfair. The real reason we’ve spent the last few weeks talking about Russian hacking is that Democrats are casting about for a reason—any reason—to explain Hillary Clinton’s loss to Donald Trump that doesn’t involve acknowledging their candidate’s and party’s monumental failings.
No less a figure in the Democratic party than Clinton campaign chairman John Podesta gave his blessing to the cockamamie idea of a briefing by the intelligence community on Russian interference for the benefit of the presidential electors, presumably so the Electoral College could upend the results of the election.
