There's a #safespace joke here.
There was a debate on this on tRant the other day. Some loon correlating ESPN's subscriber loss to their increasingly leftist ideology.
I don't think ESPN's increasing leftist activism is the sole reason they're losing subscribers, but I do think it's a material one.
There's actually a good parallel between why Clinton and the Democrats got wiped out and why ESPN is losing subscribers. In both cases, it boils down to hubris born of living, working and socializing in the liberal bubbles on the coasts.
It doesn't even occur to them (the DNC or Clinton or her campaign or the brass at ESPN) that their worldview is distinctly different from that of 90% of the country's geographic area and a material majority of its population. So they simultaneously (1) categorize anybody who disagrees with them as stupid enough to be beneath contempt, and let the world know they feel that way, then (2) go begging votes or money (in the form of ever-rising cable subscription fees) from the very group they just dope-slapped.
They literally try to insult people into voting for / watching them, then are genuinely dumbstruck when the middle (still carrying a handprint welt on its collective face) tells them to shove it where the sun don't shine.
To have such self-congratulatory intellects and egos, they're amazingly tone deaf and out of touch. In fact, they're so tone deaf that they can't recognize music when they hear it.