How did a bankrupt unstable criminal moron become President?

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7. Don't leave out the Right Wing Noise Machine

Conservatives have spent the last 50 years building a messaging infrastructure to deliver their talking points and "alternative facts" across the nation on a daily basis.

"Don't trust the lying liberal media" has been conservative boilerplate for half a century. Ratcheting up the rhetoric to win elections and ousting backsliders whose priorities did not place enacting a conservative wish-list of policies above all other things has been SOP since the mid 70s.

Vlad spliced a second set of controls into an already-constructed wrecking ball.