Stuffing ballot boxes? No, that isn't how elections are stolen in the digital era. I'm not making excuses for Hillary losing. She ran a terrible campaign and underestimated how pervasive sexism remains here. She also had the misfortune to follow a black man as president and eight years of the sick ravings of millions of racists egged on by the Republican Party and its corporate apparatus drove the election as well. I don't need an excuse. Putin could have swung the election without touching a single voting machine. This isn't a subtle question in need of a layering of analysis. At this point in time there are three major world powers and everyday it seems more likely that one of them played a role in distorting the election in another. Trump's actions yesterday are not the actions of an innocent man. Only a man as ignorant of U.S. history as Trump is would have tried to pull it off. I'm not interested in letting him get away with it by diverting attention to Hillary or the supposed jealousy of her voters.
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