emptywheel

I think there are a lot of commentators who apply standards to RU w/o self-awareness that similar things happen in our own country.

We have one of the most dreadful histories of any country in the world. Iranians and Filipinos should hate our guts, for example. But that doesn't mean we should give Putin a pass. It doesn't work that way.

Can you link where I said that? But as we assess what happened with this and past elections, ignoring what the GOP did to tamper w/orders of magnitude more money won't do any good.

I think this thread serves as a "how can we blame Putin when we already suck" exercise, in an environment where we desperately need to face Putin's meddling in US affairs.

Huh. So you're suggesting we're not facing Putin's meddling but are undertaking substantive efforts to deal w/GOP election tampering?

I'm suggesting we're not doing either, that we will never do either, and that caring about one of those things doesn't mean less attention is paid to the other. I don't think RU meddling should be downplayed.

Huh. We've got 4 different investigations into Putin's interference and a NYT article attacking a sports star for not being sufficiently critical of his President.

Sounds appropriate. We should have even more attention on the GOPs shameful vote suppression but that doesn't mean the attention on the Russia meddling is over the top.