Hedges began hosting the television show On Contact for the Russian-government owned network RT America in June 2016. (2016–2022) (Wikipedia)

Meaning, Hedges is a Russian propagandist, and nothing he says should be viewed outside of that context. (zero credibility)

The claim that intelligence agencies had no information about Trump's connections to the Russian government is clearly contradicted by the Mueller Report, by subsequent revelations, and by Trump's ongoing support of Putin. For Hedges, GQP, and others to support Trump tacitly or otherwise remains treason or the most extreme stupidity.

I saw thru the whole Russiagate crap from the beginning. It was all propaganda from the DNC to distract and cover for how they chose to lose with Hillary, a terrible candidate, rather than let Bernie run against Trump.They needed a way to rationalize to their loyalist Dem voters how she lost to Trump, while Bernie would have beat him in a landslide. Because we both know that what most voters want, is a left wing populist, but the Dems will never allow that for prez, so the voters only had one populist-sounding candidate to choose from, Trump, so it was no wonder he won.

As long as our system only allows prez candidates who are right wing populists, then we will end up with fascism and an authoritarian prez, which is fine with the ruling class, because all they care about is preserving capitalism as is and maintaining corporate control over the fed government. They don't care which party wins the WH, just that it never ends up being a progressive..

Chris Hedges is an idiot.
Two things can be true at the same time. We can have a crumbling democracy, bought by the rich by co-opting the power of Christian Nationalism and tricking stupid rednecks and idiots that don't understand Duverger's Law -AND- have a candidate that colluded with and attempted to coerce/blackmail other countries into helping him win an election.