Trump's response is far more serious than this single issue or even Donald Trump himself. We have entered an era where über-partisanship has become so extreme that even a breach of America's national security by a hostile foreign power is more acceptable than the possibility of electoral victory by the opposition Party at home. 

This goes beyond Donald Trump. It is reflected in John Boehner's invitation to Benjamin Netanyahu to address Congress behind the President's back and Mitch McConnell's refusal to appoint a select committee to investigate Russian cyber-interference in American domestic politics. Partisanship trumps everything, even national security and the smooth functioning of traditional democratic governance. 

Vladimir Putin is a dictator, a fascist, a cold-blooded murderer and a war criminal. We should be very afraid unless we truly believe that the world between 1939 and 1945 was human civilization's golden age.

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