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Joseph Goebbels was the propaganda minister for Adolf Hitler and succeed in warping the media and messaging in Germany at the time in his campaign to turn the public against the Jewish part of the nation's population.

He withheld nothing in his campaign to exterminate those he, as a virulent anti-Semite, disliked.

He explained, "If you repeat a lie often enough, people will believe it, and you will even come to believe it yourself."

Now in what is anything but an endorsement of Democrat politics in recent years, a Rasmussen Reports survey has confirmed about 60% of the party's members STILL believe the lie about Russiagate.

That was the often-repeated fabrication created during President Donald Trump's first campaign, in 2016, in which the Hillary Clinton campaign worked with "opposition research" schemers, a legal team and others to claim, falsely, that Trump's campaign was colluding with Russia in the election. Testimony suggests she did it in order to distract voters from her own scandal of putting government secrets on a private, unsecure, computer server she set up.

A commentary by John Nolte at Breitbart charged, "Despite a full-fledged and endless Special Counsel investigation coming up empty… Despite billions and billions of corporate dollars spent on years-long media investigations coming up empty… Despite all the congressional investigations coming up empty… Despite nearly ten years and a bottomless pile of money available to the organized left that has come up empty… Sixty-percent of Democrats still-Still-STILL believe Donald Trump's 2016 presidential campaign colluded with Russia to steal the election from Hillary Clinton."

Rasmussen Reports said, "Despite recent revelations about the corrupt origins of claims that Donald Trump 'colluded' with Russia, a majority of Democrats still think it explains how Trump defeated Hillary Clinton in 2016.

"The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone and online survey finds that 42% of Likely U.S. Voters consider it likely that the Trump campaign colluded with the Russian government to win the 2016 election, including 24% who believe it's Very Likely. Forty-nine percent (49%) don't think it's likely the 2016 election was affected by collusion with Russia, including 36% who say it's Not At All Likely."

The survey questioned 1,014 U.S. Likely Voters July 6-7, 2025, and the results have a margin of error of three percentage points.

The polling revealed 60% of Democrats still say it is very likely (38%) or somewhat likely (22%).

Only 14% said it was not every likely and 15% said not likely at all.

Across all segments of the population, 42% said it's likely, and 49% say unlikely.

And on a theme that Republicans have raised repeatedly, 57% said those "officials who were involved in the manipulation of intelligence to 'get Trump' [should] be criminally prosecuted."

"When asked if what the 'intelligence community did to Trump Donald Trump is bigger than Watergate,' 53 percent agreed — 34 percent strongly and 19 percent somewhat — while only 38 percent disagreed: 27 percent strongly and 11 percent somewhat," Nolte wrote. "The Democrat party is beyond broken. It's a party comprised only of feelings, none of them optimistic… We're talking about feelings only of rage, entitlement, arrogance, a false sense of superiority, preening narcissism, and a refusal to acknowledge reality.

"And it's not just the Russia Collusion Hoax. The obvious horrors of their policies — crime, rotting schools, massive and deadly wildfires, an entire abortion industry that butchers millions of innocents for the sake of convenience… Add to that, the economic and crime disasters that come with opening our borders to the Third World, a second industry dedicated to permanently mutilating children as sacrifices to their unholy LGBT gods…"

He warned: "They tell us the oceans will rise if we use our air conditioning, as they purchase air-conditioned estates along the shoreline and fly private jets. They force the poor into lousy schools while they send their own children to private schools. They turn our movies into something asexual and prudish, as they put gay porn in elementary schools. They tax our cigarettes into something unaffordable as they legalize weed, prostitution, and gambling. They lock up people over Twitter memes as they release rapists, rioters, and child molesters. They so desire cheap, illegal labor that they don't care about the epidemic of child sex trafficking that comes with it. Heaven help us if these people ever again obtain power because they will never again relinquish it."