They don't explain anything at all. They don't have to. They simply repeat "Russia bad" over and over and over again until it sinks into the normalfag consciousness.
What is the media's explanation for hating Russia?
Normalfags just parrot whatever the latest fad is.
Exaggerating once in a while to make life a bit more exciting and then proceed to forget about everything the next day.
Feed them the lies like Russian spies, Russians are evil, Russians are hurting Syrians by helping Syria, Russians are commie etc. Media do not care how many they lied to the bluepilled people.
They're trying to drive a wedge between Trump and Republican voters. Throughout the cold war, communist Russia was a boogeyman to republicans. Republicans accused democrats/actors/media etc of russian/communist ties, sympathies, etc for decades (rightly so). For many older people who's worldview is set and unchanging, "Russia" means "bad" and unpatriotic. They are not trying to convince themselves or liberals who already hate Trump (though they clearly believe the insanity). They're trying to sew doubt and suspicion among older Republicans/swing voters who still primarily get their news from the tv, to weaken his support base and popularity and make him easier to isolate or even impeach.
Russia is the closest thing to west while its not west. Perfect target.
hacked the election
hates fags and queers
"legalized domestic violence" (this one was pretty recent)
locks up and kills political dissidents (muh democracy)
Syria (oy vey assad is gassing civilians)
Wikileaks (since democrats have been on receiving end Wikileaks has become "evil")
In the mind of shitlib normalfags Russia - or rather, what they believe Russia is - is 90% of the way to what the US would be like if those damn republicans ran it for too long.
This as well. I think a part of the reason they're pushing Russia so much (both establishment democrats and your average shitlib progressive) is just because they don't want to accept responsibility for being corrupt and running a shit candidate no one liked in the election, so they need a scapegoat to excuse all their failures and shortcomings. Ego is so comically overinflated that it can't even begin to take any sort of honest introspection and self criticism.
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