This should help, take a look at Feb 2019 - no impeachment, no election. Here are Fox's ratings from adweek
Total Day (Mon-Sun): 1,458,000 total viewers
Now look at all of Q3 2019, the Fox News average total viewers was 1.4 million.
Now look at Fox's own press release for whole year of 2019
Total Day: FNC: 1,394,000
So do you believe that ~1.4m has been the norm for total viewers? And you are here telling me 1.5m is a disaster? Stop smoking the blog spam crack pipe.