Where conventional politics is suffused with ideology, the digital world is obsessed with facts. Where our current political system is irrational, awash in hypocritical god-and-values talk, the Digital Nation points the way toward a more rational, less dogmatic approach to politics.

So keep rootin’ for Putin — and hope that he makes it to the front of Russia’s last line.

Internet “may be just a passing fad as millions give up on it.”