A central truth of our civil society: Russian election interference efforts have nothing on our own partisan rot.

It’s an important point to note as we head into the final months before the election. As far as they believe is possible without attracting major sanctions reprisals, the Russian intelligence services will attack this election to accomplish their critical strategic objective — namely, the undermining of our civil society via the fracturing of the patriotism and partnership, which have long sustained American power. That power, after all, is the foundation of the liberal international order that constrains Putin’s malevolence.