Please listen to the latest
War College podcast on the role of the Kremlin in the US election...its mandatory listening if you are concerned with capital D Democracy issues.
In a nutshell...Russians have been caught using cunning social media techniques to disrupt and troll in elections. This technique may have been enough to swing the Brexit outcome (Putin benefits from a weaker Europe), Ukraine and now the US.
Some of the dysfunction in the US electorate is a result of cold-war tactics.
And no...I am not some tin-foil wearing conspiracy nut :-D