Also as bad as the Saudis are they never put a sociopathic rapist in control of a major country.
Sad as this is to recognize, the American voting public (in the right states) did that their very selves. Yes, Russian intelligence was almost certainly peripherally involved And That's Terrible, etc., but I can't really tell why people on the left are supposed to suddenly start believing everything CIA spooks spin at us just because we have a common enemy and haven't figured out their angle yet.
Back during the Cold War, vocal anti-communists hated the Soviet government (with good reason!) about as much as you hate Putin (also with good reason!), but they felt bad for the Russian people, and if they were familiar enough with Russian geography and culture they were oftentimes quite fond of the place as places go. It's not All Liberal, All The Time to believe in collective guilt for an entire nation and all of its cultural output. It's actually, dare I say it, racist.