If they were any good at it there would probably be less overt Russian sympathizing.

They'd be the exact same.

It's like like Dugin's Foundations of Geopolitics was a wish list.

Except that's not coming from the top. Tens of millions of people wanted this.

Maybe this is indeed what Russia would do to us. But we're beating them to the punch by doing it to ourselves.

Why do you assume it has to come from just the top?

The Internet Research Agency explicitly focused on the masses.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Research_Agency

Or they’re aiding it.

Well, considering they have a very high ranking guy in the Putin regime who considers that to be his full time job, google "Vladislav Surkov", they seem to be doing a fairly effective job of it so far.

Russia has a pretty high ranking guy in the US Government as well, google Krasnov.