The author, editor of The Nation magazine, argues that anything Russia may have done to discredit the legitimacy of U.S. democracy and presidential elections pales in comparison to the damage America itself has done to these institutions. She writes of the nastiness of the campaign and points out that in the "world's strongest democracy," of the past five presidential elections, two have had winners who lost the popular vote. Additionally, the U.S. has the lowest voter turnout of all democracies, with only 58 percent of eligible voters voting in the 2016 election. "In U.S. elections, money talks louder than elsewhere, simply because we spend so much more of it—a record $6.8 billion spent in the 2016 presidential and congressional elections." The author also points to recent restrictions on voting rights.

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