Nonsense. Attempting to influence other countries' elections is common; Canada does it, just more politely that the Russians. The Russian propaganda efforts, assuming this article accurately describes them, were just a drop in the bucket. When each political party spends over a billion dollars on advertising and "independent" third parties spend even more than that, and everybody with a Twitter account or a Facebook page and minimal literacy is posting opinion pieces, outsiders have to struggle to even be noticed, much less to gain influence.

The fact is that Hillary Clinton is the only candidate the Democratic party could have chosen who could have lost that election, and she did it in style.