[Tactician_mark]

Agreed. I'd add that it feels there's less of an establishment to rail against than in the Bush days. I'd bet there was a drop in numbers in 2009, when Obama started.

[lesuorac]

I would be happy to be on the otherside of that bet considering his ratings only got better during Obama's terms.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Daily_Show#Reception

[pxc]

This is more an artifact of liberal attention than of Democratic governance, which inevitably includes plenty of things to get mad about on the basis of the same kind of values.