Well! I was doing bopping around looking for some info about the coarsening and vulgarization of political discourse and came across a new conservative voice: Charles Sykes. (Some, but I hope not all, of my readers will automatically dismiss him because his article is in Politico, which is just the point.) So, rather than spending my time writing something that will be vastly inferior to this well-reasoned and informed article, I’m just posting it. I plan to add him to my list of dependable news outlets and commentators:
“Donald Trump and the Rise of Alt-Reality Media”
And a corollary article from last week by Jonah Goldberg, which I read but for some reason did not post: