Technically this is true but Rupert Murdoch - who I consider to have been far more influential than Putin - is a right wing Australian by birth. He took out US citizenship in order to be able to acquire media interests.
I don’t think Putin can seriously be blamed for Breitbart, for Christian fundamentalism with its repression of women, for Southern racism, for the boondoggles of the DNC, for the decline in standards of education, and for the weirdness of the electoral college. Assuming that Russia was able to create a swing of as much as 2% to Trump, you still have to account for the remaining maybe 40% of voters that will be worse off under a Trump government, yet still voted for it.
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