It's hard to see what they are trying to accomplish except to sow even more discontent. America is by no means perfect, but Salon finds a way to make absolutely everything that happens in America seem like the worst thing that ever happened in the history of the planet! It spews so much negativity that it actually sounds like most of the articles are written by Russian (and other "bad actor" state) trolls. At best, they are what the SVR and GRU refer to as "useful idiots".