Martin Longman has flagged a basic confession about what Russia was trying to do in the 2016 election (and other elections elsewhere). This was written, apparently, a few days after the election last year. It's a Russian propagandist spiking the football about Russia's involvement in the campaign.
I do think small but solid majorities of Americans believe that Russia had a hand in electing Trump. That's one of many reasons why his approval ratings are historically low.
The problem - as always - is not the reasonable people. It's the Republicans.
Not the various mouthbreathing MAGA types who are rolling coal and stockpiling guns for the coming race war, but the average everyday Republicans who voted for Trump because he wasn't Hillary. They got played. They don't won't to hear that they got played.
So, even though we have a Russian basically laying out the early process of how they started helping Trump, including the role of Cambridge Analytical, it simply won't make a difference for the fact averse, GOP universe.
And I don't know how we correct that, because if 40-50% of the population simply doesn't care about objective facts...How does democracy work?
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