Decline of the news business (thanks Google and Facebook), surge of social media (thanks YouTube and Facebook), and nefarious actors like Sinclair (thanks Jared Kushner and Ajit Pai) helped create the news deserts that led to Trump. https://www.politico.com/story/2018/04/08/news-subscriptions-decline-donald-trump-voters-505605 …
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This is a social media and reality TV star era of US politics. Also consider that Trump has shown a lot of vain rich folks that they can get a lot of attention & increase their wealth by entering politics so... it will probably get worse before it gets better.