At 70+, prior to 2015, I had a minimal cable news habit occasionally watching Anderson Cooper and Erin Burnett. However, as the 2016 election came into focus, I discovered Rachel Maddow's unique and highly informative style. Since that time I have been there virtually every weekday evening. Most days her comprehensive "thread narratives' have informed my conversations with family and friends.
As the 2016 election results came to be, I felt badly for my loss, but even worse for Rachel's loss. So much heavy lifting to come up short. But then a "do over". The Russian/Special Council saga brought renewed enthusiasm to her "deep inquiry" talent. Unfortunately as this story has aged and become brittle, even impassioned Rachel has had difficulty in "selling relevance". It does not look promising. Thanks to some welcome interludes to ventilate over "border kids" and "botched disaster responses" there was some relief from the nightly need to make interesting what by any reasonable standard was of little consequence.
More recently Rachel, like everyone, felt compelled to wade into the Kavanaugh debacle. I can't imagine that she didn't know how that story would end. No doubt her professionalism and legitimate liberal inclinations provided the energy for her calling play by play on this latest loosing battle.
Surely there will be more tyrannies. and most likely Rachel will continue to offer reasoned commentary on, what the trend would suggest is, the "decline and fall" of the American Experience. Personally, I can't continue to be a spectator in this Sisyphean drama where the rewards go to the self aggrandizing, crafty and deceitful and Rachel keeps rolling the rock up the hill. I think I will switch over to Judge Judy and finish up with a laugh. #rachelmaddow