Until people stop giving a about the latest 'victim" of whatever micro transgression to find fashion, the spiral will continue. Virtue signaling among the social media crowd has created a system where finding flaws in other people and amplifying them ad nauseum is interesting. The entire country above the middle class line has become a real life version of Housewives. It's a bickering contest where everyone on the show has a bone to pick and if they don't, they'll dig and poke until they find one.
This is what happens when paid law firms and hired contractors do nothing but dig for dirt on people, when incentives are offered for telling anything about anyone.
Everyone's information is out there, all someone has to do is rise to the level where anyone gives a to read about you, then you're ed as soon as you have an opinion that affects someone else's bottom line.
Some of this is due to the concept of being paid for views or clicks. Any story that generates clicks now generates money. The more you can sling out there on anyone, the more money you'll make. So the wealthy are eating each other. When it all settles down, they'll all still be the wealthy, with some rehab, and they'll toast over dinner about how cool these days were, when Harvey across the table, sitting next to Bill Cosby, was the talk of the town.