Last spring during primaries social media was so consumed w anti-HRC vitriol from the left it was difficult to speak out in support. 1/— Sandy Garossino (@Garossino) January 14, 2017
Most HRC supporters just kept quiet, as hateful rhetoric rose to near hysteria by Bernie supporters. Two main reasons for silence. 2/— Sandy Garossino (@Garossino) January 14, 2017
a) It was obvious that publicly and strongly supporting HRC would result in immediate attack on social media. Because corrupt, obv. 3/— Sandy Garossino (@Garossino) January 14, 2017
b) HRC supporters knew that to engage with the furious Bernie supporters risked alienating badly needed support during the general. 4/— Sandy Garossino (@Garossino) January 14, 2017
Consequently, very strong HRC support was muted, and anti-Clinton clamour rose to near hysteria. “She’s going to be INDICTED!” 5/— Sandy Garossino (@Garossino) January 14, 2017
The Steele memo suggests that much of this rhetoric was deliberately driven by Russians acting in concert w Trump campaign. 6/ http://pic.twitter.com/FOPRIbt3CP— Sandy Garossino (@Garossino) January 14, 2017
Further, to an unknown extent, Steele memo suggests that Jill Stein was pulled into Putin’s orbit as part of anti-Clinton pro-Trump plan. 7/— Sandy Garossino (@Garossino) January 14, 2017
Steele memo outlining Putin paid to bring Stein, Carter Page, and Flynn to Moscow; photo of Stein, Flynn, Putin at RT dinner. 8/ http://pic.twitter.com/xtjAnAI4Tc— Sandy Garossino (@Garossino) January 14, 2017
Interesting, in light of Trump pro-Sanders strategy, that Bernie has been absolutely silent on Russian hacks and election interference. 9/— Sandy Garossino (@Garossino) January 14, 2017
What’s especially interesting about Sanders’ silence on the Russian hacks is the CV of his chief strategist, Tad Devine. 10/— Sandy Garossino (@Garossino) January 14, 2017
Sanders’ chief strategist Devine worked on TWO election campaigns for Putin’s man in Ukraine, Yanukovich.— Sandy Garossino (@Garossino) January 14, 2017
And so did Paul Manafort. 11/ http://pic.twitter.com/NQmDUlm0nm
The whole world watched as Hillary Clinton was dragged through the mud in & humiliated in the most abusive campaign in US history. 12/— Sandy Garossino (@Garossino) January 14, 2017
— Sandy Garossino (@Garossino) January 14, 2017
And it all worked like a charm. HRC’s approval ratings, which averaged around 60% during/after SoS tenure, suddenly plummeted to 37%. 14/ http://pic.twitter.com/3wTBvrexum— Sandy Garossino (@Garossino) January 14, 2017
Media danced to the tune like puppets. "Emails Emails Emails!"— Sandy Garossino (@Garossino) January 14, 2017
Comey/Wikileaks, reinforced message that HRC emails = untrustworthy. 15/
If Steele memo is to be believed, a great deal of pro-Sanders & Stein/anti-HRC hysteria was a Russian propaganda op. 16/— Sandy Garossino (@Garossino) January 14, 2017
I actually was going to write something very muhc like this, until I stumbled upon these tweets.It was EXTREMELY effective in silencing HRC supporters early & building the CrookedHillary theme that finally took her out. In 3 states. 17/— Sandy Garossino (@Garossino) January 14, 2017
And don;t think Garossino and I are alone in this either.
Courtesy of the Daily Mail:
Perhaps the starkest case in point is Green Party presidential candidate Jill Stein and her constituency. In December 2015, the Kremlin feted Stein by inviting her to the gala celebrating the 10-year anniversary of Kremlin-funded propaganda network RT. Over a year later, it remains unclear who paid for Stein’s trip to Moscow and her accommodations there. Her campaign ignored multiple questions on this score. We do know, however, that Stein sat at the same table as both Putin and Lt. Gen. Mike Flynn, Trump’s soon-to-be national security adviser. She further spoke at an RT-sponsored panel, using her presence to criticize the U.S.’s “disastrous militarism.” Afterward, straddling Moscow’s Red Square, Stein described the panel as “inspiring,” going on to claim that Putin, whom she painted as a political novice, told her he “agree[d]” with her “on many issues.”
Stein presents herself as a champion of the underclass and the environment, and an opponent of the surveillance state and corporate media, and yet she seemed to take pleasure in her marriage of true minds with a kleptocratic intelligence officer who levels forests and arrests or kills critical journalists and invades foreign countries. Their true commonality, of course, is that both Putin and Stein are dogged opponents of U.S. foreign policy.
To sum up, though we are correct in giving a large amount of the credit for Trump's "victory" to the ease in which the Russians were able to manipulate the Right Wing, we also have to recognize that there are those on our side of the ideological fence who are just as easily manipulated.
Putin's victory is in recognizing that the fringe in both parties is searching for validation, and that once given can be a ring by which to lead them around by their proverbial noses.
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