I commend Greenwald's take. Even if Russian hackers wanted Trump to win, so what? There's no evidence they had any effect on the outcome, which seems to be entirely due to about 100,000 formerly Democratic voters in three states (Pennsylvania, Michigan, and Wisconsin) flipping to Trump, and the depressed turnout among African-American voters, who turned out in much larger numbers in 2012.
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