Russian operatives set up an array of misleading Web sites and social media pages to identify American voters susceptible to propaganda, then used a powerful Facebook tool to repeatedly send them messages designed to influence their political behavior.

The Web sites and Facebook pages displayed ads or other messages focused on such hot-button issues as illegal immigration, African American political activism and the rising prominence of Muslims in the United States. The Russian operatives then used a Facebook “retargeting” tool, called Custom Audiences, to send specific ads and messages to voters who had visited those sites.

We could just as easily be describing an effort by the NRA or the RNC.

 Except that it was a foreign government intent on undermining American interests.

Even if your put aside questions of collusion, (…and there was), 

 ...the fact remains that Moscow (correctly) judged that supporting Trump’s candidacy would weaken the United States at home and abroad.