Thread by @AlexandraErin

Now, in fairness to David Frum (and other rare phrases) he did turn on Trump fairly early. But there's a thing I want to address in the media and political furor over the #TreasonSummit.

https://twitter.com/davidfrum/status/1019197936096251904

And that is I keep seeing people saying variations on "This is not the typical fake outrage" or "This is not the usual liberal hysteria.", as if we who have been sounding the alarm bell about Trump from the beginning are just a broken clock that happened to be right yesterday.

While new puzzle pieces emerged yesterday in the pattern of Russia interference going back to 2015 and directly connected to Trump, the emerging narrative is that it's a total coincidence that Trump broke bad yesterday in a way that happens to resemble existing allegations.

And a lot of this is coming from the top down, from Republicans who find themselves compelled to acknowledge that Trump yesterday acted against our national interests "and must reverse course" or "must immediately clarify that he REALLY meant the opposite" or whatever.

And I understand at a strategic level why they are pretending that this is an isolated incident. They are still hoping to get out of it without having to *actually* turn on their party's president.

But I have concerns about how that's rippling. I have concerns about the mainstream media grabbing hold of it as a means of insulating themselves from introspection or accountability.

I said yesterday, in my thread urging people not to panic, that nothing that happened was *new*, it was just happening more in the open, in a way it hadn't been before.

But for everyone who ignored it when it was slightly more veiled, slightly more deniable, slightly subtler, there's a huge temptation to act as though yesterday was a radical shift.

And while I certainly don't want to dissuade them from waking up, I see no percentage in entertaining the notion that the problem started when they could no longer ignore it.