Well, to be pedantic (I'm sorry!), Russia didn't "overthrow" the 2016 election, but they certainly did everything they could to ensure the worst possible candidate (ever?) was elected, via disinformation campaigns and microtargetted advertising. I don't question the 2016 election integrity, as there is still no evidence I've heard of suggesting Russia managed to penetrate any voting systems and change a single vote directly themselves. But I definitely question the electoral influence campaigns and ongoing alignment of GOP talking points with what the Kremlin would want to cause maximum US social implosion and infighting.

I love rewinding to republican criticisms of Obama's (agreeably) too-soft response to the annexation of Crimea. There is no ideological consistency required when a party's media apparatus is 100% unified under the singular goal of retaining power. In fact, all of Trump's fellating of Putin was cool, guys. "I'd rather be a Russian than a Democrat" t-shirts for all!

Anyway, I guess the optimal course of action would be to show evidence of the GRU rubber stamping this, and then slap sanctions on both, yeah. Hopefully the intel community can do it without exposing sources and methods.

Why isn't Ukraine in NATO, again? That should have been part of the response to Crimea.