age of computer has made it where nobody knows exactly what s going on. nobody really knows what s going on. now, notice this is a device of donald trump s that we re probably going to hear a lot. because if you can maintain doubt about a problem s existence, you are under less pressure to solve it. it may not even about a problem. that s obviously how climate change denial work. now i think just flagging and understanding this trump trick, call it strategic ignorance, if you want, can actually help inoculate against its spreading. it is true that trump does not need to implement any russia policy unt january 20th. his strategic ignorance, though, may reflect the pickle he s in, caught between the cia s mounting evidence of russian sabotage and his very warm public embrace with putin. but the obama administration s not in that pickle. it released hints, then evidence about russia ap hacks as the evidence accrued it then moved from the evidence to today s consequences.