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The latest ratings are in: Fox News is No. 1 in cable news, No. 2 overall (behind ESPN) in Nielsen’s report for 2015—the highest-ever ratings for a cable news network. So it’s official: Fox News has finally destroyed television news and turned it into nothing more than blood sport.

It should come as little surprise that 2015 offered Fox News a healthy bump. Not only did it have the ongoing GOP clown car and the opportunity to host the first GOP debate, which yielded a record-breaking 24 million viewers, but it also had the gift that keeps on giving—Donald Trump.  While all of the news networks (and the fake news ones as well) offered viewers a healthy dose of Trump coverage, Trump was a big boon to Fox News.

It wasn’t simply the shared party affiliation between Fox News and Trump that made the difference; it was the fact that Trump literally embodied everything that Fox News stands for…

You know, like making things up and refusing to be questioned, rampant bigotry,  and misogyny