
<p>No reasonable person can disagree that Democrats and the left-wing media has given all things relating to President Trump maximum time and space in the electronic and print formats. ; Never in my lifetime – and I bet in the history of the nation – has a former president garnered so much attention from the Fourth Estate for what he did in the past and what he might do in the future.</p>



<p>Networks like MSNBC turned over their 24-hour schedule to news and narratives about Trump. ; It is the left-wing media’s mission to defeat all Republicans and conservatives, they have engaged in a hyper-hyperbolic strategy of smearing the Republican brand with accusations of authoritarianism, sedition and mythical attempts to overthrow the government.</p>



<p>But has the strategy backfired … in two ways?</p>



<p>Has the myopic attention to Trump been too much even for Democrats who may be progressives, but still tire of the Groundhog Day-style coverage? ; They have been viewing the same videos of the Capitol Hill riot on a daily basis for almost two years. ; The same accusations. ; Occasionally there may be a new twist in the ongoing saga, but mostly only old boilerplate parading as news.</p>



<p>I raise this possibility for two reasons. ; Virtually all my Trump-hating friends have given up MSNBC. ; Some have given up cable news altogether. ; One even cut off his cable service. ; Another switched to old movies on “Turner Classic Movies.” ; Not sure what the others are doing with their time.</p>



<p>There is a bit of slippage in the number of folks spending time watching left-wing cable news—indicating that there may be a lot more people like my left-wing friends.</p>



<p>You may have noticed how Democrats have been complaining that their problem was “messaging.” ; The voters were not hearing all the good news Biden &; Co. wanted voters to know.</p>



<p>Is it possible that their problem was all that time the media was giving to Trump? ; Did Trump and the left-wing press engage in an alliance – perhaps unintended – keep Biden’s and the Democrats’ messages off the air and out of the print media pages.</p>



<p>After all, there is only a fixed amount of airtime and print space. ; There can be no disagreement that Trump was garnering the lion’s share. ; The Trump stories were sucking a lot of the oxygen out of the room.</p>



<p>It would be no small irony if the media’s efforts to get Trump boomeranged and hurt Biden and the Democrats.</p>



<p>So, there ‘tis.</p>

Did the Trump obsession sink Democrats?
