What happens if the midterms look hacked or rigged?

[Maven]

8. Yes, I think that is exactly Putin's strategy

Promoting white nationalist domestic policy and isolationist foreign policy in the U.S. is certainly on his agenda. But the long-term goal is to destabilize our country by sowing division and distrust among different political factions and undermining our faith in our own government.

Once we see the government as illegitimate and our fellow citizens as the enemy, then we will be consumed by internecine warfare. Ultimately we will either turn into a full-fledged authoritarian state aligned with Putin and his fellow autocrats or break apart into pieces that are weaker than the whole.

And guess what? So far, it's working.