Overcome with Trump derangement syndrome after the brash billionaire from New York launched his candidacy in June 2015, the Left threw out the playbook for how political campaigns should be run. Although politicians have been fighting dirty throughout history, up until then, most had managed to stay within the bounds of decency and the limitations of the law.
The 2016 launch of the Steele dossier, a collection of derogatory and fictional stories about former President Donald Trump designed to derail his candidacy and then sabotage his presidency, marked the end of traditional electioneering in the United States and the normalization of Soviet-style campaign tactics. This was necessary, the Democrats rationalized, because they had to save American “democracy” from this evil man by any available means. And, as we now know, the dossier was merely the first in a never-ending series of fraudulent schemes orchestrated by the Left to destroy Trump.
