US partisan competition has long been infused with mad, diversionary bouts of security threat inflation with terrible political+policy consequences (e.g. “loss of China,” “communist conspiracy,” “missile gap,” “crime,” “drugs,” “terror,” “yellowcake,” “MS-13,” “Russia hacking.”)
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I think Russia sought to influence the US election through devious means for Trump, (much as the US interferes in elections the world over); on-going, self-inflicted, legally sanctioned wounds to US democracy, (e.g. Citizens United, Shelby v Holder) are far more consequential.
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there’s
no
menace
like
a
foreign
menace



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