Jennifer Rubin, a conservative columnist, thinks that “A large segment of Republican voters” possess “abject ignorance.”

Let that sink in.

This is not how a democracy is supposed to work.

That abject ignorance doesn’t come from not watching the “news.” It comes from watching right-wing media. Right-wing media are turning our democracy into a charade where facts don’t matter and manipulation wins the day.

When I say they’re destroying our country, note the tense I use. I’m not saying they’ve destroyed it. I’m saying they’re destroying it. If the ignoratti keep voting based on the disinformation they’re receiving, we’ll continue to lose our standing in the world, we’ll continue to lose the things this country stands for, populist economic policies will make us all poorer, and, if all of this lasts long enough, we’ll go from being the greatest country in the world to being a third-rate country.