Now fully 5 months from election day, the Left is still unhinged.  The victory of Donald Trump surprised most people, but shocked the Democrats, who remain grief-stricken.  And these dedicated progressives are not making much progress with their grief.  They say the five stages of grief are denial, anger, bargaining, depression and acceptance.  So far, the Democrats (a group which includes elected officials, their staffers, their voters, and the Media) are stuck in the denial and anger stages.  Their denial and anger stems from a fundamental flaw in the liberal mindset – the unreasonable, yet unshakable, belief that they are always right.  Don’t doubt me.  Liberal guru James Carville even wrote two books on this subject:  We’re Right – They’re Wrong and We’re Still Right.  This is an article of faith in the liberal world.  Liberals are convinced that whatever they believe is right, therefore any differing opinion must be wrong.   Liberalism is a religion to these people, and those who stray from the orthodox positions are denounced as heretics.  Consider the vile Chuck Schumer, the current high priest of the Left.  There is no more wild-eyed, bomb-throwing, extremist, intolerant, Leftist whacko than Chuck Schumer.  Yet Schumer is firmly convinced that HE is in the mainstream, and everybody else is out of step.  That’s why the Left cannot accept Donald Trump’s election.  That’s why it has added a 6th stage of grief to the list – fantasy; by concocting the nonsensical notion of Trump’s collusion with Russians.  They knew they were going to win, and since they’re always right, they should have won, but they lost, so the Russians must have done it.  There’s no evidence of any of this, mind you, but that’s not necessary.  The Media likes to say there is no evidence to support Trump’s claim that he was wiretapped at Trump Tower.  See, that’s how it works.  The Left is permitted to declare Republicans guilty without evidence, but any Republican claim is false either without or with evidence to support it.  I have covered the Russian interference subject before (2/24/17), and concluded that any Russian activity was designed to destabilize our government, to cripple a Trump Administration.  Simply put, what the Russians did, they did for love of Mother Russia, not for love of Donald  Trump.  And guess what?  It turns out that, before the Media concocted the claim that the Russians “hacked the election” to help Trump, no less a liberal bastion than NBC News agreed with my conclusion.  YouTube has recordings of the election night coverage of the various networks.  I recently watched the NBC show to enjoy the hysteria, as it dawned on the commentators that Trump actually was going to win.  At 1:26 a.m., November 9, 2016, a shaken Lester Holt mentioned the possibility of Russian intervention in the election.  They cut to commentator Richard Engel, who offered that “Russia wants to undermine our political system.  They have been stockpiling information to hurt Trump in order to hobble Trump.”  Engel’s observation was obviously correct, but we haven’t heard from him lately, because the Leftist orthodoxy morphed into “the Russians hacked the election to help Trump.”  It’s not Engel’s fault, though.  You see, when he accidentally told the truth on November 9th, he didn’t have the facts.  It looks like the election was “hacked,” only problem, it was Il Duce Obama’s staff that did the hacking.  We now know that Obama’s henchpeople investigated Trump and his people both before and after the election.  They intercepted conversations (yes folks, that means wiretaps), between people connected with the Trump campaign and foreigners.  Trump’s people were in Trump Tower, ergo, Trump was right.  But he can’t be right.  The angry Media is in denial.  They’re pushing Trump collusion with Russians, of which even Obama’s DNI had to admit there is no evidence, while simultaneously denying irrefutable evidence that Obama’s staff intercepted conversations involving American citizens, had the names of these citizens revealed to them (unmasked) , and then, by means of Obama’s January 17, 2017 Executive Order, made sure they were funneled to 16 different agencies, ensuring that the names would leak.  How do we know?  Our old friend Susan Rice, after first trying to deny any knowledge, finally had to admit she ordered the unmasking.  Of course, Ms. Rice assured us that none of this was done with impure motives. (Nothing to see here, move along!)  And, we should believe her.  Ms. Rice’s credibility is indisputable.  After all, she was the one who told us Bowe Bergdahl was a hero, and went on every network in 2012 and falsely claimed that the Benghazi attack was motivated by a video, and wasn’t a terrorist attack.  (False in one, false in all?)  The New York Times believes her, though.  In what American Spectator writer George Neumayr likened to George Orwell’s 1984 Ministry of Truth, whose job it was to lie to the people (“War is peace, freedom is slavery, ignorance is strength”), the Times has declared that, “unmasking is not spying.”  The television division of the Ministry of Truth did its part, too.  Ministry commentator Andrea Mitchell hosted Susan Rice in the friendly confines of MSNBC (the Even More Socialist National Barack Channel).  While Rice did her impression of Jackie Gleason playing Ralph Kramden (“ah, humina, humina, humina”), Mitchell was careful not to ask the obvious question, “What did you tell your boss Obama about all this?”  Rice was able to spit something out, “There was no collection or surveillance on Trump Tower or Trump individuals,” she said, then added,  “and by that I mean directed by the White House or targeted at Trump individuals.”  That’s what Washington Post Editor Ben Bradlee used to call “a non-denial denial,” when it came from the Nixon Administration during Watergate.  Time Magazine has called the tactic, a “Political Sign of Apocalypse,” noting that “the non-denial denial is a recurring feature of political scandals, a way for the embattled to parry allegations while hedging against getting caught in a lie.”  As I write this, Democrat fantasy continues, with the MSNBC claim that Trump and Putin are so close that Putin engineered the Syrian gas attack on children, so that Trump could attack Syria and appear to be opposing the Russians.  It was all a clever ruse, you see; part of the Trump/Putin conspiracy.  Any Democrat who believes this should seek help.  Here’s what we do know.  Big Brother Barack was watching Trump before and after the election.  As George Orwell wrote in 1984, for Democrats on November 9th, “the past was dead, the future was unimaginable.”  Trump had to be destroyed by any means necessary.  Democrat fantasy gives aid and comfort to the Russians.  Putin is still laughing his ass off.