Glad to hear that Paul Ryan got his message on the air, twice. Even though the CNN folks weren't paying attention, perhaps some of their listeners (do they have any left?) were.
There’s an activist who is very doctrinaire leftist who is one of my FB friends. I don’t even try to post on his threads, but only keep him so I can sort of gauge what is happening in the local sort-of intellectual left. If he’s any indication, the whole Dem establishment is in utter denial and has fixed itself into a position where nothing said, seen, known or done will have any effect on their conviction that their cause is right, just and wholesome.
So, I’d say the answer to “perhaps some of their listeners (do they have any left?) were” is ‘only so they can find one more person to viscerally resent and demonize’.