[sph]

All true, but you know what do we have to blame for most of that?

The Internet and social media. It did in a few years was mass media had been working toward for the better part of a century.

[thrance]

I don't know about that. The GOP has been talking about the southern strategy for a while now, before the world wide web was even a thing. Our current neoliberal economies are starting to show how bleak the world they ushered is, creating social unrest from the huge inequalities that arose, that populists can easily exploit for political gains. It's the same story as all fascist takeovers, really.