Paul Krugman Reveals the Real 'Useful Idiots' Who Enabled Our Election to Be Hacked | Alternet
The country is just seeming to wake up to the fact that the
presidential election was hacked in order to go Donald Trump's way. Paul
Krugman wonders what took everyone so long in Friday's column.
His answer essentially is that the mainstream media failed epically and
disastrously in covering this election, though there was blame to go
around.
Let’s be honest: Mr. Trump is by no means the only useful idiot in this story. As recent reporting by
The Times makes clear, bad guys couldn’t have hacked the U.S. election
without a lot of help, both from U.S. politicians and from the news
media.Let me
explain what I mean by saying that bad guys hacked the election. I’m not
talking about some kind of wild conspiracy theory. I’m talking about
the obvious effect of two factors on voting: the steady drumbeat of
Russia-contrived leaks about Democrats, and only Democrats, and the
dramatic, totally unjustified last-minute intervention by the F.B.I.,
which appears to have become a highly partisan institution, with distinct alt-right sympathies.Does
anyone really doubt that these factors moved swing-state ballots by at
least 1 percent? If they did, they made the difference in Michigan, Wisconsin and
Pennsylvania — and therefore handed Mr. Trump the election, even though
he received almost three million fewer total votes. Yes, the election
was hacked.
Krugman
makes it clear that he is fed up with the commentary that the election
was loss because the Clinton campaign made mistakes. Every campaign
makes mistakes, he argues. But how do mistakes "excuse subversion of an
election by a foreign power and a rogue domestic law enforcement
agency?"
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