I was reading an article in the New York Times about the recent Senate Intelligence Committee report on Russian election interference when I spied the following sentence.
But the Illinois State Board of Elections, hacked? I’ve been going around for the last few days asking people what they know about the story. And most folks didn’t know the state’s election board had been hacked, much less by Russian operatives. The only people who claimed they knew about it were reporters.
Our general ignorance about what the Russians did and why they did it illuminates a larger point about how we as Americans are not speaking as one when it comes to Russian spying—to put it mildly.
As for my beloved Democrats, many of them are too busy refighting the Sanders-Clinton primary battle to worry about Putin.
So instead of singing “Kumbaya” and uniting people by saying “we’re all in this together in the fight against Trump,” Bernie backers were howling with rage at all the mean, nasty, lowlife things Democratic operatives had e-mailed each other about Bernie.
Clearly, it’s not as though anyone in or out of Illinois had been talking about this story with any degree of urgency if it took that long to mention the Russians.
