So why enable it to foment chaos again?
Because that's how they win.
The Republican party has not legitimately won the White House since Dwight D. Eisenhower in the 1950s.
Even though 2018's mid-term election results were historic, it does not mean the GOP has forgotten how to cheat.
From foreign trolls and bots, Fox News, Sinclair Broadcasting, right-wing hate radio, dog-whistle (and not-so-dog-whistle) racism, mendacious Facebook ads, voter suppression, and Donald Trump's thousands of lies, the Republican party has its machine's gears well-oiled.
While Democrats took the House in 2018, Trump and his Senate enablers kicked their traitorous dealings into high gear.
That year, Twitter officials revealed to the Senate Judiciary Committee that Russian bots re-tweeted pro-Donald Trump messages close to 500,000 times in the weeks leading up to the 2016 election.
50,000 automated Russian-linked accounts re-tweeted Trump 10 times more frequently than messages pertaining to Hillary Clinton.
All told, from September to November 15, 2016, bots tweeted two million election-related messages.
2018 also saw news break about evidence confirmingRussian buyers using Facebook advertising as propaganda leading up to the 2016 presidential election.
In response, Facebook presented Congress 3,000 Russian-purchased ads through 470 phony pages and accounts intended to exploit America's racial divisions.
Facebook said at least $100,000 was spent for this purpose, a mere fraction of its political advertising during the 2016 campaign.
This motivated the House Intelligence Committee to release a sample of Facebook ads the Russian government-affiliated Internet Research Agency, a St. Petersburg troll farm, purchased about issues like immigration, religion, and race, for and against presidential contenders Hillary Clinton, Bernie Sanders, Jill Stein, and Donald Trump.
More than 11 million people between 2015 and 2017 viewed these ads.
Moreover, Russia used Facebook ads to help Trump win Michigan and Wisconsin.
2018 was also the year the White House eliminated from the National Security Council an integral position charged with developing policy to defend the United States against cyber warfare and cyber election hacking.
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