The piece isn’t all that great, but I like this quote:

You can flatter your audience over and over every day by showing them proof of how insane the people they despise are becoming. You can tell them what they want to hear about how everyone else is just hearing what they want to hear. You can even build an entire new media business model on this.

https://www.thenewatlantis.com/publications/how-stewart-made-tucker