Once again, the left is living in fantasy land. After Netflix's bid for Warner Bros. Discovery crashed and burned, with Paramount completing its purchase on February 26, Democrats are doing what they do best - blaming Trump for basic market forces.
Senator Elizabeth Warren, the progressive darling who thinks she can regulate her way to economic prosperity, called Paramount's successful acquisition a "disaster." Her allies are now peddling conspiracy theories that Trump administration officials somehow pressured Netflix to abandon their bid.
Here's the reality these economic illiterates refuse to acknowledge: Netflix didn't lose because of political interference. They lost because the numbers didn't add up. While Warren and her fellow travelers see shadowy Trump operatives behind every business decision, the rest of us understand how capitalism actually works.
FCC Ready to Approve Deal "Pretty Quickly"
Federal Communications Commission Chairman Brendan Carr has already signaled that regulators will approve Paramount's purchase swiftly. This isn't some backroom deal orchestrated by the Trump administration - it's a straightforward business transaction that makes financial sense.
But don't expect the mainstream media to report it that way. They'd rather spin tales about Trump's supposed influence over private business decisions than admit that maybe, just maybe, Netflix's executives looked at their balance sheets and decided the Warner Bros. deal wasn't worth pursuing.
"Some observers blamed Netflix's loss on the Trump administration," according to reports, because apparently everything that happens in America is somehow Trump's fault.
This is the same crowd that spent four years blaming Trump for everything from bad weather to their morning coffee being cold. Now they want us to believe that a streaming company's failed acquisition attempt is part of some grand political conspiracy.
The truth is simpler: Paramount wanted it more and had the financial firepower to make it happen. Netflix's shareholders should be grateful their executives didn't chase a deal that would have destroyed value just to satisfy Warren's vision of corporate America.
But facts have never stopped Democrats from crying "Orange Man Bad" whenever reality doesn't match their progressive fantasies. How long before they blame Trump for Netflix's next quarterly earnings report too?