the same % of Americans have always been stupid.

But thanks to the internet connecting disparate crazies, and elevating crazy to a mainstream voice, and then hostile foreign powers elevating that further on social media thanks to the internet, its devolved into a unique bouillabaisse of cromagnum hyper-idiocy the likes the world probably has never seen before.

and thank to isolated media bubbles like Fox News and OANN, it will only continue to get worse and worse.