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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de-investment, gentrification, union-busting, and corporate greed. If you go through each state's exit polls in 2016 (WI, MI, PA, OH), trade and immigration were the top issues for Trump voters. As I always said, Trump had them at repealing NAFTA. This derangement about Russia
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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
@wikileaks Podesta or DNC email releases were a major factor in the general election. If you read the actual exit polls (I did)---trade and immigration were biggest issues in the pivotal Rust Belt states. Of course, this is not as15 replies 28 retweets 138 likesShow this thread -
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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i've really enjoyed watching you and your friends go from "haha russia isn't interfering!" to "where's the proof?!" to "of course they did it but it didn't matter!" excited to see where this goes next...
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I've always said Russia pushed propaganda online--but that there was no proof Trump and his campaign worked with them. Feel free to go back and watch old videos.
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Brian Rubenstein Retweeted Jordan
Oh? https://twitter.com/JordanChariton/status/895803587133091840?s=20 … https://twitter.com/JordanChariton/status/789196205465100289?s=20 … https://twitter.com/JordanChariton/status/842913499953188865?s=20 … https://twitter.com/JordanChariton/status/928057196050599936?s=20 … The funniest part is you guys have the balls to claim you were “right all along” when the mueller report came out
Brian Rubenstein added,
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So mueller is wrong about that but right on the stuff you agree with?
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It's not just Mueller who's wrong--it's intelligence officials. And purposely wrong to try and do what they've been doing since the 1940s...stoke fear of the Russian boogeyman. Watch legendary NSA whistleblower and expert on metadata...it's not possible for Russia to have hacked
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