One of the tricks that the Communists were fairly successful with back in the day, was exactly the same game that the Anti-Opponents-of-Trump are using today. That is, to distract ALL attacks against them, by showing correctly that SOME attacks are silly or misguided.
In particular, the Russian propagandists of yesteryear would trick otherwise patriotic Americans into supporting Russian aims, by getting them to think that their own government was absurdly paranoid. Putin grew up and studied in the KGB about that technique, and is using it to GREAT success again today. The fact that Russia is no longer officially Communist hasn't changed that they have aims which are aggressive towards other countries, and which they want to advance by getting people here to support Russia for the wrong reasons.
At least your doing your research on Putin's KGB techniques.
