[Ivoirians]

I don't think anyone is trying to make the case that their side is morally superior. The issue at hand is how to prevent and punish what looks to be serious, efficacious interference, not how to perfectly avoid being biased or hypocritical. Like, pointing out "liberals would be arguing less vehemently about interference if it had produced an outcome they wanted" is pretty meaningless, don't you think? And "they did a bad thing, but we do it too, so guess we can't do/say anything about it" is nonsensical in a world where we aren't all competing for moralistic brownie points.

Not that humanity would be better off if we were less biased, of course. <30 percent of Republicans and >70 percent of Democrats believe Russia tried to influence our election. Disheartening.

[mc32]

If say the Russians had had an information/disinformation programme to help Hillary win and she had won, I am sure Repubs would have cried to the high heavens, but I think the media would have been less vehement about it.

I do think the US does put forth the idea that we do operate from a relatively higher moral ground vis a vis Russia (and others) and human rights, freedoms, cronyism, corruption, etc. We have NGOs working to that effect in addition to the diplomatic ranks and corporate governance, etc.

It's not that we are wrong, but we're also not always right.