On Monday morning’s CNN Newsroom, two CNN pundits determined that Hillary Clinton reading Fire and Fury at the Grammy Awards might not have been smart, but the far-left politicization of award shows shouldn’t be condemned and instead taken to heart due to the “damage” President Trump has caused to “the Republican brand.”

To his credit, host John Berman noted that Michael Wolff’s salacious Trump gossip book “is not without controversy” and contains “things...that are simply not true,” including the “unsubstantiated and, frankly, scurrilous rumors” that imply that U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley has been having an affair with the President.

CNN political commentator and establishment Republican Doug Heye played his part in footnoting that such a move was “why Hillary Clinton lost,” but pathetically switched gears.

“[T]his shows the absolute disconnect that Republicans have and the damage that Trump has caused the Republican brand,” Heye argued.

Earth to Doug Heye — you served in the Bush administration. Therefore, you should remember that this far-left, anti-Republican bashing at award shows was going on both then and during the Obama years. Would you have said then that “the Republican brand” was in trouble?

Anyway, Heye continued:

If you're a young voter, if you're a millennial, you have turned away in droves from the Republican Party, and what we saw last night is a reason why and it’s not because of celebrification...it’s because of what we’ve seen from the rhetoric from this White House and from a lot of other extremist Republicans who have turned young people away from the party.

CNN senior political analyst Ron Brownstein did the same shtick, claiming that “it was probably an overreach to include Hillary Clinton,” but then blamed the right.

Brownstein whined that it “obscure[d] the real point here, which was that every figure, celebrity, artist from the stage who referred to Donald Trump in any way, however obliquely, portrayed him as racist and xenophobic.”

He continued to lay waste on Republicans, chastising anyone who was upset about the politicization of award shows like the Grammy’s as refusing to acknowledge that this is something that they must address:

[Y]ou can say, well, they're celebrities, who cares, you can say in Trump country, they don't want to hear from these voices, but the fact is these are artists who both speak to and reflect in the diversity that they embody on stage, the millennial generation and the post-millennial generation who are rising in the electorate....There is a real risk to Republicans in the way that Donald Trump is stamping the party in the eyes of these diverse younger generations...and to kind of dismiss it as just a bunch of celebrities mouthing off....I think it is a bury your head in the sand about something that is very real.

The problem with this claim is the left is never satisfied and won’t be until all opponents kowtow to their viewpoints. But sure, guys, the ratings for the Grammy’s fell 21 percent from last year to an all-time low. But tell me again how all millennials are represented by award shows.