There's nothing wrong with looking for order, meaning, patterns, motives. It's not something we are supposed to grow out of. There is an overrealiance, or an over investment on magical solutions though which is why I wasn't impressed by the democrats focus on 'Russiagate'. This desperation to magically change the nature of reality is very prevalent on the American 'left.'
Disregarding the minority of weirdos who actively support Putin, I do have to wonder if they felt it instead as a vindication that Americans deserve their awful president simply because most of them are awful people. The socialist snobbery thing you mentioned in another thread.
I was under the impression that it was down to their opposition to neoliberalism.
maybe it's part of 2010s troll culture, but it seems like a growing aspect is schadenfreude: there's a mean-spiritedness of social media and online culture that embraces conspiracies as a vehicle for humiliating their opposing tribe.
How do you mean? In that Russia isn't neoliberal? Maybe so, but I don't see that that kind of oligarchic capitalism is at all preferable from a leftist POV.
I mean in the sense that they appear to see anything which puts a dent in the neoliberal order as a positive and view the Dems and the centre as part of the problem.