Photo Illustration by Lyne Lucien/The Daily Beast/GettyRussia duped the West in the 2016 election, but their playbook has been exposed and last cycle’s trickery won’t work the same in 2020. Vladimir Putin’s propagandists understand U.S. politics well, and early indications are that their goals are campaign
Russia duped the West in the 2016 election, but their playbook has been exposed and last cycle’s trickery won’t work the same in 2020.
John Sipher, retired CIA officer and former American station chief in Moscow, adroitly described the long-term danger of the Trump election and resulting era as not collusion but convergence. “Convergence can be defined as distinct groups doing the same things for different reasons, or as a unity of interests evolving from separate starting points,” Sipher explained last summer.
Right... into Putin’s HandsRussia need not waste time creating bogus content to splinter American audiences; conservative media will do the hard work for them. There are plenty of outlets willingly pumping out pro-Russia messages and false, misleading or manipulated content every day. The Kremlin will simply amplify the readily available American-made content to further divide the U.S. electorate.
Then there’s Fox News host Tucker Carlson. He claimed that the investigation into Russia, “did a lot to destroy this country.” The online outlet he founded, the Daily Caller, granted sanctioned Russian oligarch Oleg Deripaska op-ed space to repeat GOP claims of “no collusion,” alleging Putin’s interference in America was nothing more than anti-Russian bias.
With this many conservatives mainlining Russian thinking into American minds, the Kremlin won’t have to do much to sustain their gains. Moving forward, the Kremlin’s strategy will be to identify, highlight and empower the unwitting and the like-minded on the political left.
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