The modern left measures how much they like someone by how useful that someone is at the moment of measure.
When you cease to be useful, you cease to be liked, with very few exceptions.
LaSheehan was a MSM, et al, darling while she was useful against GWB, and was promptly dumped after the relevant election.
McCain went through the boost-and-drop cycle twice: first when the MSM propped up his failing primary candidacy in 2008 and then dumped on him after he won enough delegates to be the R candidate; then when his jealousy and bitterness drove him to try to be a thorn in Trump's side and then dropped as he was dying and no longer useful.
HoggBoy was a MSM, et al, darling while he was useful against gun ownership, and was dumped when he proved ineffective.
Creepy Porn Liar and Creepy Porn Lawyer were lionized by the Hate-Trump MSM, et al, until her claims fizzled into implausibility and he proved to be a serial defrauder of clients.
Swedish Warmista was huge in the MSM, et al, until she proved ineffective in touting Global Worming and against Trump pulling out of the Paris enviro-agreement.
Probably the most interesting example of this useful-then-dropped cycle are the Sacred Homeless. They became a huge issue when Reagan and GHWB were President, disappeared during the 8 Clinton years, reappeared (though overshadowed by Afghanistan and Iraq) during the GWB Presidency, disappeared during the 8 OhBummer! years, and reappeared again during the Trump years (though a lesser avenue of attack and much tarnished by their own antics and filth).
Cheney has been loved by Hate-Trump MSM, et al, while she seemed useful against Trump, but now that the people of Wyoming have made her an irrelevant lame duck, the reviling will resume.
