The Senate investigation into Jill Stein reveals the xenophobic, anti-democratic direction of Russiagate
The
Senate Intelligence Committee has demanded all of Jill Stein’s
campaign communications with “Russian persons.”
By
Max Blumenthal
Part
3 - Casting all “Russian persons” under suspicion
Throughout
the saga of Russiagate, Americans have been indoctrinated to fear not
only the Russian state, but “the Russians” as a whole. Once the
narrative of Trump-Russian collusion formed in mid-2016, liberal
media quickly filled with terrifying headlines about Russian anchor
babies, scary lists of Russian people at Davos, warnings of Russian
Jewish emigres in America, and horror stories about the
brain-contaminating green meddling rays of RT projecting outwards
from flatscreens.
According
to James Clapper, the former Director of National Intelligence and
now part of CNN’s armada of on-air former intelligence
contributors, Russians “typically are almost genetically driven
to co-opt, penetrate, gain favor, whatever, which is a typical
Russian technique.”
Now, the
Senate Intelligence Committee has demanded that the Green Party fork
over any and every document related to contacts with “Russian
persons.” The request is the most disturbing reflection yet of the
xenophobic politics of Russiagate.
Imagine
if the US government was investigating a third party politician for
their contacts with “the Mexicans,” or “the Indians,” or any
other foreign national group with a significant presence inside the
US. An outcry would immediately ensue among liberal-minded Americans,
protests by immigrant rights groups would likely erupt, and the New
York Times and Washington Post editorial boards would issue
thunderous condemnation of the McCarthyite proceedings.
Oddly,
the committee’s demand that Stein identify every Russian she spoke
to in 2016 — apparently including Russian-Americans — has been
greeted with almost total silence, if not the outright approval, of
the national media.
And
ironically, those who have most heartily supported the investigation
into Stein’s dealings with “Russian persons” are the Democrats
who have united against Trump’s anti-immigrant policies and slammed
his nativist diatribes.
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