Because ... the right-wing media machine has their audience convinced that Russians have America's best interests at heart, and American Democrats have the destruction of our country seared in their chests.

Cold, cynical, calculated plays on ignorance, magnified by years of attacks on public education across the nation.

Russians before fellow Americans. Really. After the GOP has spent decades demonizing communism and socialism, and everything to do with that country to the east of Poland.

I never imagined such an outcome, ever. I have to say it, the 24/7 news cycle and the internet have both made moving masses of people to accept BS incredibly simple. Fact is, you don't need IEDs or to hijack airliners anymore - you just need Facebook and a roomful of young hackers to bring down a Western democracy.