Remember the National Enquirer? Weekly World News? Here's a link to refresh your memory: https://charles-bastille.medium.com/trumps-plan-to-defeat-impeachment-3cfab5f797f5
These days, 40% of the nation now considers these types of publications as their primary news source, only now they are on social media and conservative cable outlets. Tucker Carlson would have been considered a joke in the 1970s. Today, he's a best selling author.
Americans have a deep, and broken moral center that is the largest sign of all that the nation is on its last legs as a world power or force for good.