Once you get hooked on conspiracy dopamine it's all downhill. Nobody's brain power has gone up after that. Dennis Miller, Lara Logan, they're all struggling with sub-college reasoning.
I'm not kidding at all. Any of these people in their 20s, if they saw themselves now, would be shattered. Crushed.
In 2012, 30 states allowed no-excuse mail-in voting. In 2016, 8 states saw more than a fourth of voters send in their ballots.
Taibbi has either gotten a lot dumber, or he just doesn't give a shit anymore.