{"id":401817,"date":"2019-03-29T11:02:52","date_gmt":"2019-03-29T10:02:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/a-trump-boosting-triumph-of-diversion-and-inauthentic-opposition\/"},"modified":"2019-03-29T11:02:52","modified_gmt":"2019-03-29T10:02:52","slug":"a-trump-boosting-triumph-of-diversion-and-inauthentic-opposition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/a-trump-boosting-triumph-of-diversion-and-inauthentic-opposition\/","title":{"rendered":"A Trump-Boosting Triumph of Diversion and Inauthentic Opposition?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Did the Russian government make some efforts to intervene on Donald Trump\u2019s behalf in the 2016 United States presidential election? Has Trump\u2019s behavior toward Russia been odd, to say the least, for a U.S. president? Has Trump had significant financial ties to Russian oligarchs linked to Vladimir Putin? Does Putin very possibly have something on Trump?<\/p>\n

The answer to all these questions is yes. But so what? There is no evidence, only supposition, that Russia\u2019s stabs made any real difference in the election\u2019s outcome. Whatever impact Russia had was negligible compared to the longstanding and ongoing interference of the United States\u2019 homegrown corporate and financial oligarchy in America\u2019s supposedly democratic elections. The depressing, demobilizing, and corporate-imperial Hillary Clinton campaign<\/a> and the dismal neoliberal record<\/a> of the Wall Street-captive Barack Obama presidency were by far and away the leading factors behind Trump\u2019s terrible victory.<\/p>\n

Wealthy U.S. election investors<\/a> and lobbyists kept Hillary\u2019s miserable campaign pathetically centrist and dull \u2013 a deadly problem in an anti-establishment election. A hard-right wing of the nation\u2019s financial plutocracy contributed significantly<\/a> to the reactionary-populist Trump\u2019s surge after the 2016 Republican National Convention.\u00a0The corporate operatives atop the Democratic Party fixed the primary contest<\/a> against the progressive-populist Bernie Sanders, who ran in…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Photo by Nathaniel St. Clair Did the Russian government make some efforts to intervene on Donald Trump\u2019s behalf in the 2016 United States presidential election? Has Trump\u2019s behavior toward Russia been odd, to say the least, for a U.S. president? Has Trump had significant financial ties to Russian oligarchs linked to Vladimir Putin? Does Putin […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-401817","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/401817","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=401817"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/401817\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=401817"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=401817"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=401817"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}