I was reading that 2 in 10 americans believe the Earth is flat. That's about 60 milions. Those people would believe anything. And I' m guessing most of them would have voted Trump.
Russia invented propaganda. With social media invention they've braught it to perfection.
The math is right.

If you consider how many people voted for an uneducated man (and feel free to add all the worse adjectives you can atribute to a person), how can this still surprise you?
Putin beat democracy with it's own weapons and his greatest victory is that he divided you.
(Work on fixing that)

That's how a dictatorship starts

*the world

And this is surprising because...?

Just so he can see who's with him all the way, no matter what. The others who dare to oppose him will dissapear politically and he'll surround himself only with yes-men. It's what he couldn't do the first time, now he's cleaning the table before going to sit.

Facts don't matter to half of the USA. They'd rather embrace a fiction as long as it fits their beliefs. Don't know how you fight that.