If you haven’t noticed in recent times, liberals have been accusing the Trump administration and basically anybody who criticizes Biden/Kamala/liberalism of being a Russian agent or puppet! (Or sometimes a Chinese or Iranian puppet, but Russia is the most common)
It can’t be the fault of the United States themselves! It can’t be that liberal capitalism would eventually degenerate into fascism! It can’t be that people are genuinely furious at the government independent of foreign powers!
It’s all the Russians!
It’s especially infuriating when they accuse leftists (particularly pro-Palestinian activists) of being “just funded by the Russians!” It’s like liberals refuse to take responsibility for their own ideology’s atrocities and think that their precious liberalism can never be wrong and all the haters are just fake.
Are the Russian bots in the room with us right now?
I think it’s just because they’re willfully ignorant of the impact that their support enables. generations of privilege makes them expect the media to keep them informed and when the media inevitablly does so selectively, centuries of American exceptionalism teaches them to believe that anyone refuting liberal benevolence must be a Russian/Chinese/Republican bot/shill/tankie/troll/useful-idiot.