Growing disillusionment in American democracy can’t be blamed on a shadowy web of Russian influence, one of Moscow’s top diplomats has said, arguing Washington must face up to the lack of faith ordinary people have in politicians.
In a statement issued on Sunday, Foreign Ministry spokesperson Maria Zakharova said that “the threat to American democracy does not come from authoritarian regimes, as it is sometimes fashionable to say, but the distrust its own citizens have.” There is an increasingly common perception, she said, “that everything said by the political elite and the global information monopolies in the US is a lie.”
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