It’s a white nationalist backlash. They cared not about the messenger; only the message. It’s also the product of Russian disinformation. Russia has perfected the art of sowing division and faux outrage. We’ve done it to other countries so we deserve it in some sense. We’ll see a rise of toxic masculinity. Women exercising sexual autonomy and gaining power is not something snowflake men can handle.

Such is my belief. I could be entirely wrong.

Russia again?? Sure always look for external excuses for one's problem. That's the lesson of the day.

Russia and China have been waging a cyber war against the U.S. for a long time now. Russian accounts on social media have been effective at sowing dissent, chaos, conspiracy theories, and false information. Tim Pool and others on Russia’s payroll is clear evidence of this.

The lesson of the day is that the U.S. is far more conservative than I thought. Trump is the President we deserve and we deserve what comes next. White rural voters will not be helped by him and I will not shed any tears at their plight.

> Russian accounts on social media have been effective at sowing dissent, chaos, conspiracy theories, and false information.

Let me see... are you saying the CIA is sleeping at the wheel and don't know how to sow disinformation by themselves, and that a third world country like Russia is somehow more capable at this kind of game?

You should the entirety of what I’ve written.

Russia has perfected the art of sowing division and faux outrage. We’ve done it to other countries so we deserve it in some sense.

It’s possible that Russia is better at some things than the U.S.

It is additionally also possible that a democracy with more or less independent media is much more vulnerable than a dictatorship with state-controlled media. The democracies in the world better wise up quickly and figure out a way to become resilient against this.

The is right out of Alexander Dugin's playbook.

It's not about policy though and it never was. There is no way the Democrats could have "policy-ed" themselves out of this.

I'm inclined to agree with you. At the same time, I don't think Kamala should have spent some of the limited time she had cozying up to people who wouldn't vote for her, antagonizing her base, and for the most part sidelining the people she had to convince.