Bound to Fail: The Rise and Fall of the Liberal International Order (2019)

Re:Bound to Fail: The Rise and Fall of the Liberal Internati... by Wowfunhappy on Friday January 07, 2022 @06:13PM (#29846293)

> I will grant you this is not exactly the same as claiming the results of the election were not legitimate. But it does seem to directly blame foreign interference for her loss.

But I think that's a very important distinction! If a foreign power attempts to influence our elections through underhanded means, the US should retaliate diplomatically, regardless of who won. Note, that doesn't mean the winner should be called into question.

> To me the question of foreign interference is way less important than the question of why this election was even close, or indeed why Trump even made it as far as the nomination.

I think they're both important. I also think that foreign interference is one part (key word) of the answer.

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Re:Bound to Fail: The Rise and Fall of the Liberal Internati... by skohan on Friday January 07, 2022 @06:38PM (#29846532)

A robust democracy would not be so vulnerable that one of the candidates' actual private emails being made public would not swing the election.

We live in an adversarial world, and America will always have enemies. If we are so fragile that a 3rd rate hack can get a tin-pot dictator elected, the fragility is the problem, not the attack itself.

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