However, the reality is rarely like that. Hillary's data scientists/quants got it wrong, and their arrogance cost them at least Michigan. Kennedy probably stole Illinois but that was brute force. The Soviets were bumbling mismanaged cleptocrats.
Lower-level criminals seem like Einstein during their crime spree, then when it's all over their bios reveal them to be losers who had the element of surprise. Most of them go on to become Darwin Award winners.
Truthfully, all this chanting of SOROS and CHINA et al is reminiscent of the left and their chanting of HALIBURTON during the Bush years. It's what I expect from my 5-year old when something bad happens...THE BOOGIEMAN DID IT!
Do I believe there are globalist forces funding Bad Things? Of course....that's been going on since The Tree and The Apple. Do I believe foreign actors were at work in 2020? Certainly...there are ALWAYS foreign actors trying to influence elections.
Do I think we are eternally screwed and there is no way a largely legit election is possible, and that there is no way our smarts or people can overcome their smarts or people? NFW.
However, if we backcast today's mindset to Washington, he'd have said "ya know..those Hessians in Trenton are just too much of an opposition. They're bigger, smarter, and funded by The King, and besides it's cold out and the spray of water stings my face."
Except for this:
The CCP wants to control everything and only allows pro-CCP organizations, even in foreign countries. If an organization is big enough, the CCP will try to control it; if it won’t cooperate, the CCP will treat it as an enemy.” - mainland Chinese overseas student.
There is no aspect of US life that the CCP and its sycophants (Confucius Institutes as well) have not penetrated. They have the money, the will, the means, and the methods as the US is an existential threat to the CCP, which is not like the CCP of the Deng period, but far worse. What better use of the US dollars flooding into the CCP than to use some of that to utterly destroy the US election system, history, and culture using willing village idiots, aka democrats and anarchists?
Sometimes the Boogeyman really did it.