It’s alarming that Russia was willing to be so aggressive, but it is even more alarming that such an absurd strategy worked. The Russians were pushing on an open door. Even if the government was able to stop the Russians from ever doing this again, we now have a conspiracy theorist in chief in the Oval Office. Pure propaganda is the official strategy of the Republican Party, and if Democrats don’t figure out how to combat it, we will be relegated to the opposition for years to come while Republicans flush the country down the toilet.
