Americans Don’t Seem to Care about the Mueller report, but It’s a Major Kitchen Table Issue

Americans, at least many of them, for whatever reason, simply do not seem that concerned about the findings unearthed by the twenty-two month investigation led by Special Counsel Robert Mueller into the possibility of Russian interference into the 2016 U.S. presidential election.

The bottom-line? They just don’t perceive all the sturm and drang animating the beltway over Russia’s now-confirmed meddling and varying degrees of the Trump campaign’s “collusion” as having much to do with the day-to-day challenges they and their families face.

It’s not what we have come to call a “kitchen table issue.”

Indeed, Tim Ryan, the Democratic Representative from Ohio who has thrown his hat into the ring to run for the Democratic candidate for president, just last Friday morning reported as much from Iowa.

Calling into Morning Joe from the campaign trail, Ryan recounted how in the course of a two and a half hour conversation with Iowans, the report was simply “not a topic of conversation” until one Iowan pointed out the fact that the report had not been asked about.

Host Joe Scarborough affirmed Ryan’s experience, seconding that when he’s been out touring the country and meeting people, “The people in…