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I'm replying to one just above. Trump won because "a lot of people really are unhappy with the status quo". Really, that's it ? Despite the largest popular vote loss for an electoral college winner in history? All the things Mueller notes in his indictments at https://www.justice.gov/file/1035477/download, wouldn't matter; social media being gamed by a foreign adversary, targeted to exactly those regions for which the electoral college would need to be manipulated as documented in the indictment is provably completely irrelevant to the election results.

edit: just on this thread:

"As someone who didn't vote for Trump, and doesn't support him, that's one of the (many) things I find so disheartening about this entire process. Pretending that Trump is somehow a unique problem that needs to be solved rather just another corrupt politician is to whitewash the rest of the crooks running our government. It isn't an accident that Trump is being portrayed as a unique menace. The levers of power in our government (and their minions in media) are very careful to paint the picture of this being an aberration."

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16681901 - e.g. this person is picking the conspiracy theory answer of occam's razor. That it really is a wild and massive left/right wing conspiracy to make all this happen, controlling both houses of congress, the justice department, and all media (including Fox who has to play the tricky hand of being against the investigations, yet is unable to produce a compelling reason why they should actually be ended), yet DT was elected in the first place.

"I'm not picking on or defending anyone, I'm just weary of the last years' worth of articles that keep claiming "smoking guns." https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16681776

these come out immediately on every story about this.