In particular, the election awarded being mean, abusive, lying, covering up, stealing/breaking in, misogynism, racism obstructing voters, gerrymandering, and so on. And it was *better* for the presidential race - these values won 2/3 of state governorships and state legislatures.

After Bush got us in a disasterous war and destroyed the economy in 2008, and the economy's just recovering and we're about to roll back ISIS, our huge effort to get a talented woman elected is rewarded with a year of media bias, flippant support for a lunatic, and a hope and a prayer for a guy with 0 plans for actually governing, well fuck you majority America. If this were Apple's Board, you would have just passed the control of the world's most profitable company into the hands of the Keystone Kops. Doing a good job and speaking sanely obviously speaks for nothing anymore - it's catering to people's spitefulness and grudges in the most shallow, patronizing way possible.

If these are the rules, we know how to play. Alec Baldwin mastered the rules in little time, and he's just an actor. Of course who will take care of the press?