I'd hope for a mildly more competent, less compromised candidate who can't be "defeated" by Russians with an $80k ad budget.
Of course, if the Russians are really serious about fixing the election they'll arrange for Hillary to run again.
https://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/16/technology/peter-thiel-do...
I guess he gets a sweet rate at Facebook, too.
OTOH, there will be misinformation directed to confuse the public about that, too, and that may be challenging to sort out.
This is what scares me. We saw in the last few days that a prominent 'antifa' Twitter account pretending to based out of Boston tweeted from Vladivostok, presumably in error.
Accounts like these provide the fuel that empowers elements of the alt right, and they're still active in these efforts.
If Twitter and Facebook fail to become more proactive on countering these baiters, what does that mean for our future? This doesn't seem like a problem we can easily retroactively assess our way out of.
Of course, some people will still try and make it seem like it's a crazy idea, but they do the same with AGW.
Having media sources most people respect on board with the basic notion should help.
Right, but for who?
You mean when all of the U.S. press spent the year beating up on Trump?
It was pretty obvious, just from looking at the front pages. That was the Russians? Wily buggers.