I saw that Trump lost about 70 million dollars on his DC hotel. I'll get to Fox in a second.
Donald Trump openly grifted while in office. His routine is to find some unspoken rule or rarely-enforced law, and then just go against it anyways. I'm not showing my taxes, I'm not giving up control of my business, I'm not going to put up barriers, etc.
All of this stuff would have drawn bi-partisan outrage. John Edwards was an outcast in his own party and an easy target for republicans. He looks like a saint compared to Trump.
Fox News has somehow convinced roughly half the country this lifelong entitled grifter is somehow a brilliant self-made businessman. The same guy who loses 70 million even when he can openly break and flout laws in the open with support of the highest levels of government, law and public support. Its like being told you can go take anything you want out of the bank with no repercussions, and you somehow leave the bank owning them ten dollars.
Fox News has turned themselves and their viewers into a bunch of cultists, driven by racism and some bizarre view of self-preservation. And they've chosen a guy who stands for nothing they claim to represent (other than being a rich white man). It's like if all the country's liberals started worshipping Ted Cruz. And even as dumb as Cruz is, he's nowhere near Trump-level stupid. So there's not really even anyone you can use as Trump in an analogy. They're all either smarter or not as bad as he is. Fox News has somehow formed an audience that can look at a dolt like Trump and not laugh. That in itself is amazing, but they WORSHIP him. Your NASCAR and Coor's-loving factory-working uncle worships a silver-spoon, NYC-elitist guy who wears makeup and hairspray. That didn't happen overnight. I'm thoroughly convinced Trump would have been universally laughed out of any primary before the country elected a black guy.
There's a thread about MSNBC and Fox.... I know they take equal hits a lot of the time, but one crowd has given rise to Barack Obama and the first female presidential nominee, and one gave rise to Trump, Paul Gosar, Matt Gaetz, etc. I think there's a testament to what each network produces. MSNBC isn't automatically awful because Fox is so bad.