re: #374 wrenchwench

And many people grasp that, and have learned how to manipulate it on FB and twitland. This also needs to be taken seriously. Putin took an election with it.

I think we will eventually learn that Putin’s work as a KGB officer had a lot to do with the success of his influence campaign many years later. His job was monitoring western media. He was able to do this from a point of view that was relatively free of western class prejudice. This would give him a highly developed skill at spotting trends and opportunities that others would tend to ignore.