America has been deliberately dumbed-down, and that’s what has made Trump possible and made his cult so susceptible to misinformation and manipulation.
Bill C. Davis writes at Common Dreams:
“Poor education, a pervasive vapid culture and a constant massage of the collective lower instincts has spawned a juicy target for whoever or whatever want to bring the classic columns down. A large part of the body politic has been depleted of immunity. It can’t resist.”