Again: those who hated Trump most flamboyantly and monomaniacally —- especially on TV — were the ones whose careers and bank accounts benefited most from him.

Here’s what is starting to happen to them now that he’s done, and why they’re desperately in search of a replacement: https://twitter.com/matthewstoller/status/1357345089257758720

People forget that in 2014 and 2015 almost nobody was watching MSNBC and CNN. So many of their hosts were on the verge of being fired, their shows cancelled. Trump single-handedly saved their careers: fear keeps people clinging to those shows, and they squeezed him for all of it.

The only hope for these networks is to convince viewers America is on the verge of civil war, an existential threat to democracy.

That’s why it’s so vital to call a few hundred people at the Capitol an “insurrection” or “coup”: almost toppled earth’s most militarized country!