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People like to say this... can you list a few examples for us? My understanding is that Russia's interference in 2016 was much more blatant and substantial than anything that's happened before.
Sure. In 1940 the [damn] Germans were worried about the U.S entering WW2, for good reason since we're the GOAT, & plotted to get their preferred isolationist candidate.
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It funded the publication of books, journal articles, newspaper op-eds, and even popular novels aimed at promoting the isolationist cause and downplaying the threat of Nazi hegemony in Europe. The Nazis specifically targeted German-American communities and associations, and many were sympathetic, as Bradley Hart’s recent book has shown. One prominent operation was the publication and distribution of fake documents from the Polish archives purporting to show that Roosevelt had encouraged Poland to invade Germany in 1939
https://warontherocks.com/2019/07/dont-call-it-a-comeback-foreign-interference-in-u-s-elections-has-been-here-for-years/The British wanted the exact opposite, also for good reason, so they did the same.
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British intelligence employed the full range of cloak-and-dagger techniques in America in 1940 and 1941: forgeries, seductions, burglaries, electoral dirty tricks, physical surveillance, intercepting and reading letters sent under diplomatic seal, illegally bugging offices and tapping phones, flooded American newspapers with fake stories, leaked the results of illegal electronic surveillance and deployed October surprises against political candidates. British intelligence even listened in on a telephone call in June 1940 between President Franklin D. Roosevelt in the White House and his ambassador to Britain, Joseph P. Kennedy Sr. A report on the call was quickly relayed to Churchill, alerting him that the U.S. was making contingency plans in case the U.K. fell to the Nazis.
https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2017/01/when-a-foreign-government-interfered-in-a-us-electionto-reelect-fdr-214634In 1968 the Democratic nominee VP Humphrey was badly trailing Nixon over Vietnam, so he declared in an October surprise he would stop bombing them & start some peace talks if he won. This was popular & Nixons lead shrunk to 5 points. So Nixon basically violated the Logan Act & secretly had a team meet with Vietnam & convinced them that his administration would be better for them to work with. Vietnam pulled out of the peace talks, & Nixon ends up barely winning.
https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2016/07/russia-dnc-hack-donald-trump-foreign-governments-hacking-vietnam-richard-nixon-214111