The New York Times unloaded this bombshell:
WASHINGTON — South Florida has long been a laboratory for some of the nation’s roughest politics, with techniques like phantom candidates created by political rivals to siphon off votes from their opponents, or so-called boleteras hired to illegally fill out stacks of absentee ballots on behalf of elderly or disabled voters.
But there was never anything quite like the 2016 election campaign, when a handful of Democratic House candidates became targets of a Russian influence operation that made thousands of pages of documents stolen by hackers from the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee in Washington available to Florida reporters and bloggers.
“It was like I was standing out there naked,” said Annette Taddeo, a Democrat who lost her primary race after secret campaign documents were made public. “I just can’t describe it any other way. Our entire internal strategy plan was made public, and suddenly all this material was out there and could be used against me.”
Read it once, be scared, and outraged. But then read it again, where you see that it was only Democrats targeted, it was known Russian disruptors surreptitiously getting a hold of local political bloggers, and the targets were chosen very carefully — in a dozen “toss-up” races that seemed like possible Democrat wins.
We are now potentially talking about Russia 1) going to individual districts for microtargeted document dumps, 2) trying to influence the balance of the house, and 3) having a specific agenda, possibly in collusion with the Republicans themselves, to have Republicans win more House races.
I mean, holy fuck. You’re trying to tell me this is only about Hilary Clinton anymore? There is no freakin’ way. You’re trying to tell me that this isn’t the equivalent of a 9/11 against our election system? There is no freakin’ way.