I understand now that you mean boogeyman to be a kind of tool for the government or media, and for the media, you're right. But that's only the case because the media will grab anything it can to snowball into the forefront of the public interest, and Russian-American relations happen to be full of theatrical events. Right now, the biggest outlets in news media are more similar to a reality show like Keeping Up With the Kardashians than a source of information for current events. News on the Russia/Trump scandal is something I personally make an effort to ignore because it is just so difficult to sift through the media until I can find actual information, so I won't comment on it. But I would say the Average Standard American sees it as a talking point that they know nothing about to debate others who know equally nothing about it, just like most other political events that stem from today's administration. I'm glad we see more eye-to-eye than was apparent at first :)
That's Quote Book material. Stealing it.the Average Standard American sees it as a talking point that they know nothing about to debate others who know equally nothing about it