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It's always been obvious that Putin was behind the Tea Party which evolved into MAGA, and even more obviously, Trump. Problem is the whole system is designed to only allow wealthy land owners to hold power, thus the two party system enforced by the electoral college, and the districting systems that are easily manipulated to give power to land area, above population. The whole system at the federal level is broken on purpose. All we can do is try to get more people to vote so population has more power over land area, but the conservative controlled states cut funding for voting and people have to work do can't wait in line for many, many hours in large cities on election days. Only progressive states have mail-in voting and early voting and even there we're stick voting for "lesser evil" candidates due to the two party system both controlled by the wealthy. There's the far right fascist Republican party and the moderate right Corporate friendly Democratic party. No party gir the people.
The koch brothers were behind the tea party, and ive never seen anything linking them to russia.
At a guess that astroturf movement was hijacked by others but im not sure we can pin much of that on russia specifically.
Um...Koch Industries donated tons of money to politician to not retaliate against Russia when they invaded Ukraine, and they refused to pull out of Russia when lots of other companies were. And that's just one small, recent example of their connections to Russia. Google can find lots of others. I mean go back far enough and their family had close connections to Stalin as well.
Thanks this is useful to know