Thursday, August 15, 2019

Meddling in other country's elections

This is the second excerpt National Review has published from Andrew McCarthy's new book entitled, Ball of Collusion: The Plot to Rig an Election and Destroy a Presidency.
... To Obama-era Democrats, arguing that Russia was a real threat, that it longed for a return to Soviet hegemony, was akin to calling for the return of Jim Crow and the adoption of protectionist practices that helped ignite the Great Depression.

But then Hillary Clinton lost the 2016 election, and Democrats decided they’d best return that call from the 1980s after all. It turns out Russia — the Russia against whose serial aggressions Obama took little meaningful action throughout his eight years in office — really is our Numero Uno geopolitical foe. Turns out the Cold War isn’t “so last century.” Since November 8, 2016, in ever-evolving Democratic dogma, Russia has gone from a quaint obsession of neocon warmongers to an existential threat on the order of Climate Change!

McCarthy goes on to give a brief history of election meddling, including meddling by the United States! Read it here.

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