> because it has the same problem as the fabrications about Russian collusion

I'm still worried about Russia interfering in our elections. I can't speak for others.

> And then people quite rightly ask "why was the focus on fabrications rather than real, tangible problems."

Because it almost worked. If one police officer had run a different way, the insurrectionists probably would have found where the congresspeople were. Say a bunch of them are killed—what do you do now? If they came from states that had opposite party governors, and the balance of power in congress changes... what does that mean for democratic legitimacy?

That day came very, very close to being very bad, and there's no reason to think it won't repeat itself in a few years if we don't take the problem seriously.

Why is the US suffering supply chain issues, and issues of scarcity, which are not present in other developed countries like Germany?

Are cars and GPUs not hard to come by in Germany?

For stuff like cream cheese, I really think the news stories are overblown. It's around, there was plenty in the grocery store yesterday.

Surely a global shortage of a certain very specific good is different than a local shortage of everyday consumer goods.

I hope you are right that this is not a serious issue. I can only say that I ran into this, as well as being unable to reliably get on a flight, as well as being unable to easily aquire a PCR test required for international travel all within the same 3 week period.

And none of these problems seem to exist in Germany.

If you want to pretend that Russian collusion was a fabrication, you have to explain why Senate Republicans found that Paul Manafort was exchanging internal campaign data with a Russian Intelligence Officer. So far, no one who I have encountered who believes that collusion was a hoax is able to explain this uncomfortable fact.

Here's what the Senate Intel. Committee concluded:

  [B]ased on the facts detailed in the Committee's Report, that the Russian intelligence services' assault on the integrity of the 2016 U.S. electoral process[,] and Trump and his associates' participation in and enabling of this Russian activity, represents one of the single most grave counterintelligence threats to American national security in the modem era.

Again, that was the conclusion of the Republican majority Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, chaired by Republican Richard Burr. What about this is a fabrication?

What happened in 2020 is not that the election was more secure per se (although there was some foreign interference reported at the time, it was not as bad as in 2016), it was that Paul Manafort was not Trump's campaign manager. He was the main vector between the Trump campaign and Russia. And honestly at that point, Russia didn't have to do any work to get their propaganda on American airwaves, because Fox New was literally doing their job for them -- e.g. broadcasting the position that Ukraine was responsible for the 2016 DNC hacking, not Russia.

> the transfer of power turned out to be mostly peaceful - as usual.

Mostly peaceful? A violent insurrection at the Capitol during a joint session of Congress, sent there by the defeated President, with the explicit intention of preventing the transfer of power through force is not "mostly peaceful", I'm sorry. It actually marked the ignominious end of a 200+ year streak of peaceful transfers of power. Even during the Civil war something like 1/6 didn't happen.