If having Trump be president is Russia's goal, their state media openly bragging about it is a terrible tactic. I find it far more likely that Russia's strategy here is to undermine faith in American democracy in general.
A large part of the right already believes that our elections have been "stolen". I see this kind of talk from Russian state media as an effort to lay the foundation for the left believing the same thing the next time the right wins.
In a lot of ways this is a much easier strategy to pull off then actually having to manipulate voters into voting a different way than they would have anyway. All you have to do is persuade everyone in the country that if their side didn't win the election it was because of fraud or foreign interference, and you've created a situation that is ripe for unrest that will distract the country from any kind of meaningful foreign policy.
> I see this kind of talk from Russian state media as an effort to lay the foundation for the left believing the same thing the next time the right wins.
The left believes the 2000 and 2016 elections were both stolen.
Considering that the actual, you know, votes would have produced a different result in 2000, it is not an idle conceit. The US Supreme Court did, in fact, choose in 2000, and very publicly, by 5:4. Had Anthony Kennedy chosen differently, we would have had a different presidency, and probably no Iraq War, and might have been well on the way to controlling the now very obvious global climate catastrophe.
It was all perfectly legal.
In 2000, global climate catastrophe was still denied.
"the left" - How many court cases were there? How many protests and number of protestors? You are implying that an entire ideological group thinks something which is wrong
A large part of the right already believes that our elections have been "stolen". I see this kind of talk from Russian state media as an effort to lay the foundation for the left believing the same thing the next time the right wins.
In a lot of ways this is a much easier strategy to pull off then actually having to manipulate voters into voting a different way than they would have anyway. All you have to do is persuade everyone in the country that if their side didn't win the election it was because of fraud or foreign interference, and you've created a situation that is ripe for unrest that will distract the country from any kind of meaningful foreign policy.