"...Hillary Clinton had been in Washington for 30 years and things had not gotten much better". 

We are reaping what has been sowed.

Thirty years marks the time in which rancorous mutual destruction replaced bipartisanship and (sometimes grudging) mutual respect in politics.  It also marks the rise of Rush Limbaugh,  Fox News, and Breitbart, not to mention the internet. MSNBC and other left wing outlets can be just as vile, but are pretty wimpy players in the great scheme of things.