Whatever CNN is paying Scott Jennings, it’s not enough. His pragmatic, common-sense commentary offering realistic solutions to problems plaguing everyday Americans has become the glue holding the network’s evening programming in place.

Night after night, Jennings does rhetorical battle with far-left panelists who continually offer up the same two failing lines of attack: They hate Trump, and they believe everything should be viewed and addressed through the prism of identity politics.

Surely, the executives at CNN understand that it was precisely those attack lines that enabled Trump to make substantial gains within the Hispanic community, the Black community, young men, independents and even a percentage of Democrats. All these voters switched to Trump because they knew that “we hate Trump” and “identity politics” were calculated rants and not a strategy to help keep them safe, lower the cost of essential items, protect their jobs, improve their health care or address the problem of failing public schools.

Each evening on CNN, Jennings throws those bread-and-butter issues back at the liberal panelists — and they either sputter to come up with an answer or double down on the attack lines in allegiance to the vocal yet tiny minority making up the far-left wing of the Democratic Party. The next day, various conservative websites then sing the praises of Jennings for sticking it to the Democrats. Except ... that is not what he does.

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