"The hustlers, hucksters, hacks and cowards who helped elect Donald Trump, The elite gatekeepers of our public discourse never bothered with context. Why do great civilizations fall. Some scholars point to the danger of overextended militaries, others on overwhelmed bureaucracies. Sometimes the key factor is declines in public health, often caused by agricultural crises. Political corruption is another contender, as are inflated currencies, technological inferiority, court intrigue, rivals taking control of key transportation routes or an overreliance on slave labor. Others point to changes in climate, geographic advantages won and lost or the ever-popular invasion by barbarian hordes.None I could find, however, mentioned what may become future historians’ most convincing explanation for America’s fall, should Donald Trump end up her author and finisher: bad journalism."
At billmoyers.com
