05-04-2017, 08:28 AM
(05-03-2017, 06:38 PM)Dill Wrote: This is not about "proving" the Russians affected the election. How would the election have gone if voters knew Trump's camp was under investigation?
And it seems to me she did a lot of things very well. She was magnificent and prepared in the debates while Donald looked grumpy and played. What did Trump really do better? He wanted to build a wall and ban Muslims and that drew the Republican base to him. He injected an unprecedented level of incivility into the campaign at every stage.
In my view, two decades of Fox/Rightwing media "fake news" had a larger effect on Hillary's negatives than Russia or even the email scandal. People are scratching their heads every day now at Trump's incompetence and lack of knowledge while the Trump base shows little sign of buyer's remorse. Someone who doesn't know government is still better than someone who does because he's an outsider. Hillary had no answer for that. Perhaps there is no answer until Trump's policies are finally perceived to fail massively.
I hope she will keep a running commentary on them as they do. Maybe the people will choose better next time around.
Matt can't determine what "Russian interests" are "exactly." How could one determine if Russian interests influenced an election if one can't first identify a single Russian interest on their own?
