Russian interference in US elections has made a lot of Americans more hostile to autocracies. The effect varies in strength with political affiliation, and dif

Russian interference in US elections has made a lot of Americans more hostile to autocracies. The effect varies in strength with political affiliation, and different groups within the country have held different levels of animus to autocracy over decades. But there is a base level of fundamental conflict between liberal society and illiberal society that never goes away.