”where are the adults” I mean, the Republican game plan was to create this situation. Once they decided that they will do what it takes to win, they really did succeed.

I mean take everything from the climate crisis, to my favorite - creationism being taught in school at the same level as evolution.

The playbook is literally right there, you get experts to come on stage, ridicule them to your audience, show that they are cartoons and have no real value.

Then you provide you viewers with good sounding news bites and manage the optics, and you can get a convicted felon elected to President.

Yes - it really is just the information ecosystem. There really is no free speech when one side is a regular joe and the other side is a marketing and political speech behemoth.

It is that simple, and we can’t do anything about it, because that would be harming our ability to speak freely.