I never called them "vanilla conservatives", but it's a giant and nonsensical leap to go from the Mercers funding Parler to it being a Russian disinformation operation.
Dumbass Dem Dave jumped the gun on the Russian shit, then the Mercer info dropped later that day, and he had to find a way to save face.
The fact that you're still pressing this narrative 10 days later, after the above events, is baffling.