Does anyone here honestly believe that Trump is the only president since Nixon to abuse his power? He just lacks the fake smile and PR team to polish the turds. It also helps to have the media on your side.

Obama had a kill list, not open to the public or signed off by a judge.
Obama had ordered the death of Americans living abroad, no trial.

Bush43 leaked a CIA agent's name and pardoned who did it.

Bush43 authorized torture.

"authorities are turning up the heat on popular websites and apps ostensibly to fight terrorism"

Sounds a like what the FBI has been wanting from Apple and what Google and Facebook are doing for the government in the US and UK. This, unfortunatly, is not unique to Russia. It seems to be an internation movement from all countries governments.

You can thank Bill Clinton for this.

1996 Telecommunications Act

Start following groups you don't support, I started doing that. It open up a whole new world and understanding of where some talking points come from.

Its seems like it isn't really necessary and the benefits are small. They might have a point here.

One can easily imagine him telling his crowds that the CIA is plotting against him or that authoritarian policies are necessary to fight whatever enemies he decides are keeping America from being great again.

Isn't this exactly what the Bush did after 9/11 (Patriot Act) and the run up to the Iraq war (bad intelligence)?

The information attained from the Phishing email Podesta fell for, just validated the feelings us Bernie supporters had all along. The DNC picked Hillary and that was final.

Now, the Establishment Democrats are playing blame everyone else and stay the course. Just look at Schumer being selected a minority leader in the Senate ( WallSt buddy). and staying with Pelosi. You would think after the loss of the majority in 2012 would tell these people it is time to change course, or this election. Just look at Pelosi's Face the Nation interview (don't change) or Howard Dean's praise of her on Morning Joe (raises money).

Keep in mind that the Daily Beast is owned buy IAC and Chelsea Clinton is on their board. http://iac.com/about/leadership/board-directors/chelsea-clinton

Agreed.

I feel like this will all go away after the election. 2016 has been a cold war buzz word bingo night. In 2017 the news/US gov't will go back to blaming China for all the hacks.

Why don't they just take the X Games and add it to the Olympics?