This country really is doomed, lol.
The idea that a chronic scam-artist, pedophile, grifter and complete narcissist would make a useful president is one of the saddest / most hilarious things ever. These "MAGA" voters only needed to pay attention over the decades to the dude's history, or just read up on the facts to determine just who the guy really was, yet they went ahead and voted against their own interests... multiple times, in many cases.
In terms of the Russian meddling, we have a landslide of facts showing that Russia (and China & N.Korea) have been running online troll & disinformation factories for some time now, and that Russia (undoubtedly the world's most egregious mafia-state) have had strong interest for decades in destabilising Europe & the States for their own advantages. Specifically, we had a
bipartisan commission find that Russia meddled in the 2016 election, on top of a load of other evidence across industry, for example social media sites, such as Facebook.
Man-made climate change? I can say with 99.9% certainty that it's a thing, and that it's getting worse every year. Why? Because that's what the world's national academies have found and reconfirmed by the facts at every scientific level for... what? Over three decades, I guess? That's on top of the fact that scientists discovered the greenhouse effect and CO2's role in that all the way back to the
1800's. (seriously, look up the work of Swedish scientist
Svante Arrhenius) And of course, during our industrial age, we've specialised in putting CO2 and other greenhouse gases in to the atmosphere at an absurd rate, and so far the best we've been able to do is to pump the brakes a little on our yearly GG increase, kicking the can down the road in the hopes that somebody else will solve the issue. Problem is, CC is coming on a lot faster than some were willing to believe, causing increasing heat waves, resultant wildfires, change in ocean currents, weather disasters, ocean acidification, loss of crop production (thanks Russia for doing your part), and many other problems & fallout.
So yeah, unfortunately, when enough people are willing to believe narratives over facts, that's when you become a nation of people (helped by a variety of dirty electoral tricks, such as gerrymandering & chronic vote suppression) who vote against their own interests, while corporations & oligarchs get to live in their own little reality bubbles, totally unconcerned about the future.
Imagine that-- a doomed nation with a huge attitude about facts & reality. Literally
angry & defiant about willing to read even basic encyclopedia entries, to understand the facts, and follow what the best, most qualified experts are saying.
It's either laugh or cry, I guess.