Who saw it clearly at the time?
by digby
While the rest of the press was drooling over HER EMAILS!!! searching madly for signs of the disgusting Hillary Clinton's obvious depravity, Franklin Foer saw the bigger picture:
A foreign government has hacked a political party’s computers—and possibly an election. It has stolen documents and timed their release to explode with maximum damage. It is a strike against our civic infrastructure. And though nobody died—and there was no economic toll exacted—the Russians were aiming for a tender spot, a central node of our democracy.
The Russian government knew us better than we knew ourselves. The press hated Clinton and was eager for anything to fill their bottomless need to humiliate her. The right has been primed for decades to see nasty trolling as the only legitimate form of politics. Donald Trump was speaking directly to the racist, misogynist lizard brain and millions of Americans were open to what he was saying. It was a perfect storm.
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