Rush’ instincts are spot on. There is another scandal being worked on right now, bank on it. The MSM will never run out of creating scandals, it’s their business. The MSM are more akin to fiction authors than journalists.
It takes time, but the public becomes fatigued by every crisis and this is especially true when every person you talk to can name dire predictions and hyperbolic claims that never happened.
The best example of this is “global warming”, which morphed into “climate change” when people realized it was not getting hotter, the seas were not rising, and the ice was still at the poles.
Conventional wisdom as portrayed by professional politicians and the media is no longer trusted by people with good reason. It is not just in the U.S. either.... we are seeing an uprising of people throughout the world that are shaking the standard politics in many nations.