Sorry 2 be debbie downer of the current Twitter/media groupthink, but Trump saying Russia "helped get him elected" doesn't make it so. I covered campaign on the road for a year. What elected Trump was the Rust Belt that had been decimated for three decades through job offshoring
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as if Putin was standing behind mid-west voters with a crowbar in the voting booth...is cable news-created narrative to try and rationalize or surmise a reason someone like Trump can win. Of course, this doesn't mean Russia didn't try to interfere-they did....
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just like the U.S. has directly interfered in elections around the world for decades (including in Russia in 1996). If Dems want to pretend if not for Russia,
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notion that Russia got Trump elected is predominately held by Dems living on the east or west coast—which are the predominate folks who live in a bubble not directly seeing and feeling the economic despair everywhere else (I live in NYC and most people I talk to acknowledge this)
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THERE IS NO EMPIRICAL DATA that shows Russia or
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sexy and sensational as the Cold War reenactment played daily on cable news. Reality is never as entertaining I guess. But the continued Russia-phobia and pretending that it's Russia—not neoliberalism & bad candidates--that is the reason for Trump will result in....more Trump.
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AND . . .
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Bullshit ... 30,000 votes in 4 states Voter disenfranchisement mainly
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Voters who cared most about the economy leaned toward Clinton
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I think this is progressive wishful thinking. Xenophobia and fear of losing status were drivers, not economic security.
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