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Not only that, but the clickbait media-sphere has slowly eroded "news" outlets to the point where they no longer cover things like "healthcare", "taxation", or "education". Now they cover polls, donors, polls, primaries, rallies, polls, conventions, polls, elections, exit polls, approval polls, disapproval polls, etc, pretty much non-stop from election to election. The incessant drone of horse race journalism is drowning out any even remotely meaningful coverage of actual things that are happening in people's lives. Long form and investigative journalism has been displaced by low effort politics-as-sport commentary.
Is there any wonder, then, how one of the major political parties was completely overtaken by a man who's singularly obsessed with "winning" against "losers"? We've been fed a 20-year diet of who-beats-who monotony, and all the actual issues in the country are glossed over as boring and irrelevant. They fed people non-stop infotainment, and then people fell in line behind a vapid, loud-mouthed reality TV billionaire.
You nailed it.