Eric Trump: "Mark my words. They are rigging this thing."

We don't need Russians troll farms to divide Americans, sow distrust in institutions of government, or to re-elect Trump.

Facebook post: Buttigieg caused the Iowa mess

We do it to ourselves. 

The Trump campaign jumped right on the task of triggering Sanders' supporters.

Donald Junior tweeted:
 "The fix is in. . .  AGAIN."  

And then, minutes later tweeted:

 "Tens of thousands of ballots all for Joe Biden being shipped to Iowa from Broward County Florida as we speak."

It was trolling the libs, pouring gasoline on the fires of resentment by Sanders supporters of the Democratic Party. Sanders caucuses with Democrats but holds himself apart from the Party. So do many of his supporters. Many have a premise that the actual fair-and-square winner of the 2016 nomination was Sanders, not Hillary, that he had it stolen, or that he should have won, and certainly that had he been the nominee he would have won. 

The trolling by Eric and Donald Junior Trump wasn't necessary. Left-oriented Facebook groups were already spreading the rumors on their own, that the delays in Iowa tabulations were not "human error" or commonplace incompetence.  Instead, it was a well-plotted conspiracy against Bernie Sanders, another incident in the ongoing coordinated battle by every engine of the Democratic Party to rob Bernie Sanders, again. 

A great many on the political left believe they know the true enemy of progressive politics in America, and it isn't Trump, the obvious and known enemy. The more dangerous enemy is the one who pretends to be an ally, the Democrats. They sap strength from the movement. They enable backsliding. They are tempters.

And they were at it again, in Iowa. The app was the weapon. It was designed to fail, and it did.

The app mess, plus the overloaded telephone backup, meant that the election night story was one of delay, with no winner to announce. Sanders would be denied bragging rights as the victor. After all, in a fair and just world Sanders was going to win big in Iowa, and his victory would provide momentum into New Hampshire where he would win again. That would demonstrate conclusively that he--not Biden or the other DNC puppet candidates--was the real authentic voice of the people. 

That had to be stopped, especially when polls showed Sanders was going to win in Iowa. The app was developed for Iowa and other states by a company called Shadow, which had personnel and financial ties that could track back to Buttigieg and Hillary Clinton and therefore the DNC. Bingo! That's how they did it, the app.

James, in a pro-Sanders Facebook group: "Odd how the Dems apparent incompetence always works against Sanders."

Lisa's response: "There are no accidents in politics."

Marie: "The DNC allowed this Bull. They knew about the App that Buttigieg's company made and Hillary's people worked, What kind of App only counts Pete Buttigieg. We are still Bernie or Bust period."

Daniel: "BERNIE won but the DNC can't have that so their corrupt members."

Thanatos: It's time to declare the election illegitimate and boycott it. The US can either give us a new fair election, or we can make Bernie president by force. People are dying from contaminated water and lack of medical care, the time for games is over."

Sean: Not even that they're morons, but that they'd rather see their own party burn to the ground than let Sanders change things to help working people."

And hundreds more.

A recurring theme in Bernie Sanders' Facebook groups is the notion that all the candidates other than Sanders--Biden, Buttigieg, Steyer, Bloomberg, and even Warren--are actually simply agents of dark forces of corporate overlords who control the Democratic Party. They are not running on their own volition, reflecting their own ambitions. They are coordinated and take orders to block Sanders. 

Donald Junior and Eric--and any Russian trolls--were not putting new ideas into the political mix. There is media commentary on conspiratorial thinking in Trump's coalition and right-populism: birtherism, pizza brothels, George Soros, plus foreign infiltration by Latin American immigrants and Middle Eastern terrorists. That attention misses the well of populist conspiracy thinking in the political left. The villain is different on the left. The corruption is from the top down, with hidden enemies in the form of pervasive corporate influence, corrupting our politics. The DNC is the prime agent of evil.

This is very convenient for Trump, and it gives his campaign rich opportunity.