This story has been buried in the madness, but it is an important one.
As @tayhatmaker and I discussed
today, there are many ways that US adversaries might create a small crack in a US election that US partisans will happily widen with a crow bar.https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/06/us/politics/house-hacked-materials.html …
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The most effective Russian activity (that we know of) in 2016 was likely the GRU hack-and-leak operation, which gave them the power to create thousands of news articles and 24x7 news coverage to drive a wedge between Secretary Clinton and disgruntled Sanders voters.
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What would happen if, today, Wikileaks dumped out selected emails from leading pro-NATO Senate candidates? Would the press reaction be any more reasoned than that in July-August 2016?
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What if, on election night, an attack modifying non-official early tabulation results was combined with a massive disinformation campaign alleging that the partisan SoS was stealing the election. Even if they knew this was false, would the DNC and RNC hold back the lawyers?
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If the parties can't agree on something as basic as not using hacked emails in their campaigns (which isn't binding on the partisan media who would amplify anyway), what they are telling Russia/Iran/et al is "Go ahead, hack away. We will finish what you start."
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Our problem isn't only that we aren't ready to stop attacks, it's that we are happy to be willing participants if the outcome matches our preferences or if we are amplifying lies that correspond with our priors.
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This sounds old-fashioned and maudlin, but at some point we are going to have to collectively recognize that there are American ideals more important than our policy or candidate preferences.
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I understand the cynicism around American exceptionalism as a civic religion, but its collapse has left us with tribal political warfare that is quickly destroying the few norms we have left.
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Anyway, I'm gonna watch some West Wing tonight and dream of the days when a budget battle was considered dramatic enough to dominate a three-episode arc.
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The most accurate show about Washington DC is @VeepHBO. But that doesn’t quite have that idealistic hopeful sentiment you’re looking for right now :)
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