From Putin's perspective, things in the US couldn't be going much better.
This is like a bad movie. First let's look at 4 things that are happening:
Russian birth tourists are flocking to Trump hotels to have dual-citizenship babies. http://www.thedailybeast.com/russians-flock-to-trump-properties-to-give-birth-to-us-citizens
White nationalists are having a recruitment heyday because Trump has let them come out in the open. http://www.motherjones.com/media/2017/09/fighting-white-supremacists/
The Dreamers are being deported along with their families. kpete has a post up now about that.
Republicans are introducing a bill that will further destroy Social Security and Medicare. This bill, in some form is expected to pass.
So now let's look at the bad movie script:
Russia ensures election of 'Manchurian candidate' to US presidency.
Russia hacks into voter rolls in 38 states and hires trolls to ensure this candidate and his party will win.
The new 'president' brings white nationalism out into the light, gives it legitimacy, and ensures a recruitment boom.
The treasonous president and his party continue voter suppression efforts to make it harder for people of color.
Elite Russian 'birth tourists' are giving birth to Russians who are also US Citizens, and who Putin plans to have rule us when the time comes.
Social Security is attacked, regulations are attacked, we pull out of Paris, and hundreds of other things, which in effect distract us from the above.
Make no mistake. We are playing Putin's game here.
The big five bolded above scare me more than anything else, because reality seems a lot like that bad movie script.
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