Russia's documented strategy for foreign propaganda campaigns includes a few steps where you undermine people's trust in increasingly core pillars of society.

Russia's documented strategy for foreign propaganda campaigns includes a few steps where you undermine people's trust in increasingly core pillars of society. For example, they often start by undermining trust in media organizations, then elected leaders. The current trajectory the US is on is indistinguishable from the successful outcome of a propaganda operation based on that playbook.