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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I live in the rust belt. It’s sad that some journalists still can’t see, or refuse to see, how well the Russian disinformation campaign worked here.
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I can say that I received multiple FB responses to my posts from people advocating voting for anyone other than HRC - write-in for BS, Stein, etc. There was a concerted effort to influence.
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Russiagate was also the principal hope of getting him impeached and indicted. Trump is alot of bad things, but what was needed was a CRIME. Conspiracy/collusion seemed like the ticket. I actually think it still is, along w alot of other crimes.
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The crime at this point is obstruction of justice by interfering with a lawful investigation - which if committed by anybody what would land them in jail.
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It’s like he doesn’t understand anything about the Republicans’ very own plan to depress minority turnout. They were freaking caught stating this ffs. The blindness is staggering.
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Actually yes. Fake FB pages aimed at young black progressives in particular helped suppress voter turnout by dampening their enthusiasm. The election came down to 77k voters over 3 states. It’s reasonable to think a number of factors made a difference on the margin including

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I think it’s far sillier to say the ONLY thing that mattered was trade. Hell I don’t think Trump would even be POTUS if Scalia had not died & McConnell stole Garland’s seat. ALOT of factors played a role in Trump’s squeaked out victory
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Fake FB pages caused divisions within the population exacerbating the economic sentiments. Immigration is NOT an issue. But it was made so largely through politics. The Russians were/are good at widening the divides. We will probably never know the full effects.
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Read the Mueller report and then get back to us
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