AND AS WE WIND ON DOWN THE ROAD TO IDIOCRACY: Sanders and Trump Have Risen from the Wreckage of a Broken Culture.
Related: “The 2016 election and the rise of Donald Trump mark the lasting triumph of postmodernism—that signal creation of European theorists of the 1960s popularized and democratized on American college campuses in the 1970s. Postmodernism’s core notion is there is no core—to anything. There is no essential truth, no intrinsic meaning; what we imagine to be truth is just a hierarchy, an order, we are imposing on whatever it is we are analyzing or interpreting.”
As Michael Walsh has written, the Frankfurt School and its offshoots did their job of poisoning American culture remarkably well.