The news, or I should say what we all expected happened, is that Russia specifically targeted its Facebook buys to inflame racial division, focusing on pushing BLM and attacking it at same time:
Story in Washington Post
We are France 1940. The French right and French left were so at odds in the 1930s, in the Third Republic that a popular saying on the right was “Better Hitler than Blum” (French leftist leader). In the USA the right might as well have been “Better Putin than Hillary.”
France was beat before the first German Panzar crossed the frontier. It was rotten within from the divisions of the society. I keep looking at America these past few decades and especially since 2000 and wonder if we have fallen for the same fate.
It was so easy to disrupt this country's democracy. We have had decades of talk radio/FOX/infotainment that got ratings and money by whipping up "white grievance." We were rotten from within. Russia just took advantage of what had been wrought for decades. They didn't have to use a single armored division or ICBM. You can undermine America from within by playing to divisions created for profits and short term political gain. And no this is definitely not a “both sides do it” thing.
Like France, it was ludicrously cheap to destroy our Republic.