Trump isn't Vladimir Putin's only American sucker.
Rick Wilson, Nov 27, LINCOLN SQUARE
Not “incidental to MAGA,” not touching it,” not “nudging it,” not “occasionally exploiting it.” MAGA is a foreign influence operation, root and branch.
While pundits spent
more time this weekend than anyone should on RFK Jr.’s, uh, erotic poetry to
Olivia Nuzzi (and by that, I mean SWEET JESUS BLEACH IT FROM MY BRAIN), we
learned foreign influence operations are at the tweeting, bleating heart of the
MAGA moment.
MAGA is not just a
political movement of goateed, 50-ish white dudes who all rock that same avatar
of them copping what they imagine is an expression of manly vigor in the front
seat of their behind-on-the-payments Ford F-350.
It’s a delivery
system.
A supply chain for
chaos that starts in Moscow and Tehran and Beijing, runs through bot farms in
industrial parks outside St. Petersburg or the Pardis Technology Park north of
Tehran, or some Nigerian click farm, or a Chinese-criminal-owned
social media and tech scam prison in the wilds of Burma, bounces off
a rage-merchant influencer “from Ohio” who has never set foot in America, and
ends up in your pissed off MAGA uncle’s Facebook feed as a “patriotic truth.”
It’s tempting to call MAGA the most gullible cohort of political suckers,
mooks, rubes, and slowcoaches ever to blight this nation. I want to tell you
I’m going to resist that temptation, but that would be as big a lie as the
thousands of MAGA accounts with AI avatars who look and sound like American
patriots, flooding social media platforms from their lairs abroad.
MAGA is the most gullible cohort of political
suckers, mooks, rubes, and slowcoaches ever to blight this nation.
If that sounds harsh,
good...
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