in your opinion, is the Democratic Party too Russophobic?

[mieastwick]

This is the thread where I ask for your opinion. I made sure to not ask it in this thread, but a bunch of you guys offered it anyway:
https://uselectionatlas.org/FORUM/index.php?topic=262338.msg5606914#msg5606914

Horus, there is no "just right" option because, firstly, nothing is ever perfect, and, secondly, I want you guys to state your own personal preference, not just rent out your brain to your party.

[mieastwick]

It strikes at the very heart of our system of government, which is what the identity of this country is built on.

Let the record speak for itself.
http://www.vox.com/world/2017/4/20/15376214/obama-emmanuel-macron-call-french-election
http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/284790-nigel-farage-obama-helped-force-brexit
Russia is actually much more of a democracy than the United States, despite having much more electoral fraud than the United States, since it doesn't have the electoral college, half the Duma seats are elected by proportional representation, which the US doesn't have on any level, and the guy at the top is both elected and actually more powerful than the unelected bureaucracy. That doesn't mean I'm a fan of its system of government. I am a libertarian, not a big D Democrat or a small d democrat.

How do you suggest speech like Barack Obama's to Macron and the people of the UK be curtailed? Internet filters?

And Russia did not even endorse anyone in the 2016 race. The only problem you have is with public access to Hillary Clinton's Goldman Sachs transcripts. Sometimes, whenever I think I might be too cynical, I read something like this and remember I'm not nearly cynical enough.

[mieastwick]

The Democratic Party is neither Russophobic nor Russophilic. It merely hates whichever position it sees Trump more as. Welcome to being the opposition party.

That does somewhat fit the thrust of the contents of the recent Dem-written spending bill, but they could easily oppose Trump for not advocating aid to Russia and not supporting lifting all sanctions from it. That wouldn't contradict the general principles of the Democratic Party or the Dems' position as a knee-jerk opposition party, and it would make substantially more sense from a logical standpoint (e.g., the party's 2012 position) than its present stance.