I find the naivety of everyone involved that allowed Russia to influence opinion to be the most fascinating part of the propaganda narrative.
For example:
When Putin was Obama's problem, his approval was in the single digits among Conservatives, and since he became a rightful enemy of the left? It is I believe around a shameful 30%.
And what helped to trigger this? The media and the Obama Administration saw the Russian threat as a joke, until slowly turning about when Russia won a few real polotik conflicts with Russia, and then completely when the (already rather authoritarian in manner...) the Donald, ascended to Pennsylvania Ave.
The GOP and many talk radio allies are willing to kiss up to Putin for the Donald when he is in the White House.
The DEMS and many mainstream media allies are willing to be for Russia, before being against Russia, depending.
Russia, acting as a national agent provocateur in what I see as a limited sense, has still reaped a widening of our destructive political divide.
Their slight tremor activated a massive political earthquake terribly fracturing Blue/Red America and willing to have most activists and the politicians in their sway sell off even more of their credibility.