Did the Russians Hack the DNC to Help the Left Take Over the Democrats?

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Sultan Knish
Daniel Greenfield
July 18, 2018

The Russia conspiracy theory hinges on the single creaky claim that the Democratic National Committee hacks were a Russian plot to elect Trump. The theory and all its illegitimate stepchildren, including Robert Mueller and his infinitely expanding corps of prosecutors, lives or dies by the DNC hacks.

Trying to elect Trump by releasing damaging insider information from the DNC never made any sense. The DNC was already a dysfunctional organization that was being run by the Clinton campaign. Undermining its leadership had little impact on the election, but a great deal on control of the DNC.

There has never been any evidence that the DNC hacks swung the election. The vast majority of people never even heard of them. Only a handful of political insiders and watchers, already deeply and unpersuadably committed to one side or another, could name the contents of a single email.

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I think the most effective approach is the opportunistic one. They can't know how things will go so they might start with sowing discord to see which opportunities arise. If they feel the Bern then they go with that.

But then Trump won the election.