Liberal activist Noam Chomsky courtesy of Ann Althouse

The idea of the Russians intervening in the American election "is a joke.  Half the world is cracking up in laughter."

The United States doesn’t just interfere in elections. It overthrows governments it doesn’t like, institutes military dictatorships. Simply in the case of Russia alone—it’s the least of it—the U.S. government, under Clinton, intervened quite blatantly and openly, then tried to conceal it, to get their man Yeltsin in, in all sorts of ways. So, this, as I say, it’s considered—it’s turning the United States, again, into a laughingstock in the world.

Chomsky also criticizes Democrats should welcome Trump's effort to ease tension with Russia. 

And it is a kind of a paradox, I think, that the one issue that seems to inflame the Democratic opposition is the one thing that has some justification and reasonable aspects to it.

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