"American Rule" (how we got into this mess) by Jared Yates Sexton

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4. The right wing media and the gop used to be two different things.

In the old days, the party would write the scripts and talking points for the radio, and the rubes would eat it up. When Devin Nunes first opened his trap during the impeachment hearings, I thought, "wow, right wing radio made it to the halls of Congress, wait... they're in the freakin' white house!"

It is a decades old problem that has resulted in a whole generation of idiots who were bottle fed on this garbage, and many of them are holding office. Not just the misinformation but the lack of critical thinking, and a general distrust of all truth tellers, scientists journalists and career non-partisan government officials. The entire gamut of their logic is "if A equals B, then Democrats are bad".

"The other party is bad" is not a governing philosophy or policy framework. Republicans that did have governing ability were gradually purged. McCain is in a grave and Romney is on an island. The slim tether to reality has snapped under the pressure.