Before getting to that: CNN's and MSNBC's ratings are falling. Again.
MSNBC and CNN suffered staggering losses in viewership over the past year -- while Donald Trump's ascendancy supercharged Fox News in the cable news ratings war.
The left-leaning networks -- which will both be spun off by their respective parent companies -- suffered year-over-year declines in all major metrics for the second quarter compared to the same period last year, according to the latest Nielsen data, which was reported by AdWeek.
Comcast-owned MSNBC, with its rabid anti-Trump lineup of anchors, drew an average 1.008 million primetime viewers from April to June, a year-over-year decline of 15%, Nielsen figures show.
In the the advertiser-covered 25-to-54 demographic, primetime viewership plunged 20%, to 91,000 compared to last year -- despite star anchor Rachel Maddow returning to full-time duty during the first 100 days of the Trump administration.
Jen Psaki took over her 9 p.m. primetime slot Tuersdays through Fridays midway through the second quarter ratings period.
The exodus of eyeballs was even worse during the day, with total viewership plummeting 26%, to an average of 596,000, and 31%, to 57,000, in the key demo compared to the same quarter last year.
CNN, which has languished in last place despite paying anchor Anderson Cooper a reported $18 million in salary, averaged 538,000 total viewers in primetime for the three-month period and 105,000 in the demo, according to Nielsen
Year-over-year, the network saw declines of 13% in total viewers in primetime and a 15% drop in the 25-54 demo.
The cable news pioneer, owned by Warner Bros. Discovery, dropped 14% in total viewers during the day, to an average of 406,000, and 16% in the demo, to 71,000, year-over-year, according to Nielsen.
It's not just ratings. We know the deranged left thinks and dreams and obsesses about politics and defeating TRUMPHITLER!!! every waking moment. They are voracious propaganda addicts and doom junkies.
They are not watching the news because:
1, Trump keeps on winning,
2, the leftwing propaganda outlets cannot hide this fact no matter how hard they try,
3, they're beginning to suspect that their propaganda outlets are lying to them,
and
4, the Democrat-Media Party seems completely unable to even get a simple information operation going that the public cares about. Ten years of hysteria and hoaxes have finally ended the left's ability to mount a proper psyop. Leftwing lunatics not only know they're losing, but they look at the Democrat-Media Party and see no signs and no reasonable hope for improvement in the near term.
So they tune out. The plummeting ratings aren't just doom for CNN and MSNBC. They're also a strong signal of complete demoralization of the left.
On to the finding that Trump is the most popular president among Republicans in history:
I say this not to slight Trump but to boost Reagan: Most liberal Rockefeller/Bush Republicans remained in the party under Reagan. They didn't approve of Reagan, but they still called themselves Republicans.
Liberal fake Republicans hate Trump so much they're now just Democrats, though some still continue to play True Conservative on MSNBC. So Trump's Republican Party is more Republican and conservative (and Trumpian) than Reagan's Republican Party was.
But still, this is wild: 65% of Republicans strongly approve of Trump. Not just approve, which I think is at something like 90%, but strongly approve.
Rarely do presidents deliver so much to their base that a supermarjority are strong supporters.
That's not all the CNN poll finds: it now finds that the Democrat-Media Party is majority pro-Hamas.
Jason Cohen
@JasonJournoDC
NEW: CNN's Harry Enten GOBSMACKED by how pro-Palestinian Dems have become
"In 2017, the Democratic Party was a pro-Israeli party. Look at this: They sympathized with the Israelis by 13 points more than with the Palestinians."
"But look at the sea change! Now Democrats sympathize more with the Palestinians by 43 points!"
"Oh my God! That is a change in the margin of 56 points over the course of just eight years!"
"So all of a sudden, it's the pro-Palestinian position that actually reigns supreme in Democratic politics -- not the Israeli position."
Bill Kristol and his gay Wormtongue Tim Miller used to claim to be Republicans and derange it into pursuing the left's goals.
Now they're just boring, tedious, drab communist Democrats like a myriad others.