NP - Did Putin Swing the Election to Trump? Of Course He Did. (less bluster, more evidence)

[Thomas Eckhardt]

On Tue, 10 Jan 2017 16:35:49 -0500 (GMT-05:00)
  <kelber at mindspring.com> wrote:

> Is the NY Times another Putin mouthpiece? Then why did 
>they print this?
> 
> 
> https://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/04/us/politics/hillary-clinton-fundraising.html?_r=0

Very interesting. Thank you.

>Then there were 
>statements like this from Senator Schumer:
> 
> 
> “For every blue-collar Democrat we lose in western 
>Pennsylvania, we will pick up two moderate Republicans in 
>the suburbs in Philadelphia, and you can repeat that in 
>Ohio and Illinois and Wisconsin.”
> 
> 
> http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/438481/chuck-schumer-democrats-will-lose-blue-collar-whites-gain-suburbs
> 
> 
> Did Putin operatives infiltrate HRC’s campaign to 
>convince them to woo Republicans at the expense of their 
>own base? Or did they fuck it up on their own?

Sam Kriss, in the article I recommended and linked to 
earlier, puts it like this:

"Whatever Russia did or didn’t do, the idea that its 
interference is what cost Hillary Clinton the election is 
utterly ludicrous and absolutely false. What cost Hillary 
Clinton the election can be summed up by a single line 
from Sen. Chuck Schumer, soon to be the country’s 
highest-ranking Democrat: “For every blue-collar Democrat 
we lose in western Pennsylvania, we will pick up two 
moderate Republicans in the suburbs in Philadelphia, and 
you can repeat that in Ohio and Illinois and Wisconsin.” 
As it turned out, he was fatally wrong. It wasn’t the 
Russians who told the Democratic Party to abandon the 
working-class people of all races who used to form its 
electoral base. It wasn’t the Russians who decided to run 
a presidential campaign that offered people nothing but 
blackmail—“vote for us or Dangerous Donald wins.” The 
Russians didn’t come up with awful tin-eared catchphrases 
like “I’m with her” or “America is already great.” The 
Russians never ordered the DNC to run one of the most 
widely despised people in the country, simply because she 
thought it was her turn. The Democrats did that all by 
themselves."

http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/politics/2016/12/what_the_hell_is_wrong_with_america_s_establishment_liberals.html
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