Why the Russian sustained effort to bring down American democracy will ultimately fail

NoCoPilot wrote:

As Americans, we're not all such a good-looking bunch. We tend to envision ourselves as we see ourselves in the movies and on TV, as better-looking versions of ourselves. Any time there's a TV docu-drama about a real person invariably the actor chosen to play that real person is a whole lot better looking.

But our character, if anything, is better and more generous than we are portrayed. The people who stop at accidents, the people who contribute to charities or their neighbors in need, people who would literally give a stranger the shirt off their back... We are a good, strong people, as a group. We care about each other.

It's time that our leadership reflected our character, instead of our TV images.

It make take a few years, but we'll rally rather than fold. Bet on it.

It DOES make me wonder however....

This constant swirl of scandals, big and small, welling up every day, sometimes even hourly, ever since the president took office. One thing after another after another after another, nearly nonstop. We're all developing scandal-fatigue, to where we cannot be bothered to get outraged anymore.

How much of this, I wonder, is Russian-generated? How much of it is fanned by Russian social media bots? Is it paranoid to wonder if any of this is real?