Yeah but what portion of what Assange has done is illegal? Being a liar and yellow journalist is not illegal, however unethical or even immoral. On the one han

Yeah but what portion of what Assange has done is illegal? Being a liar and yellow journalist is not illegal, however unethical or even immoral. On the one hand we have an innocuous, as in inconsequential character, Putin suck up who will probably go to prison forever. On the other hand, a consequential character, who groveled so magnificently in public, debased himself and his entire nation, continues to get accolades by 1/3 of that nation, who even think he'll be reinstalled as president come this August. One of these things is pathetic, the other is a significant mass delusion. How can it be surprising that rank and file Republicans don't recognize Assange as a liar? They have consistently lacked or repressed the basic character assessment skills to identify and avoid empowering liars, grifters, and groveling toward dictators. It's quite bizarre and outside the realm of politics in my view. It's some kind of macro psychological event that has more in common with behavioral economics (just how irrational are people anyway?)