[This article first appeared on billmoyers.com on February 2, 2017. It’s the fifth in my series. You can read the first four installments here, here, here, and here.]

“Time makes more converts than reason.”

— Thomas Paine, Common Sense (1776)

Stay on message. The Trump Resistance Plan focuses on two messages that are central to our democracy: “Russia interfered” and “Presidential corruption matters.” This installment covers the first one: “Russia interfered.”

In a joint interview with Senator Lindsay Graham on January 7, Senator John McCain described the stakes: “What Putin did poses a threat to the very fundamentals of our democracy…”

Senator Graham emphasized that this is not a partisan issue: “We should get to the bottom of all things Russia when it came to the 2016 election, period. Wherever it leads in whatever form…”

Trump and Russia

Putin engaged successfully in a sophisticated cyberattack