In yet another over-the-top display of progressive hysteria, “The View” co-host Sunny Hostin had a full-blown meltdown over CBS’s decision to cancel *The Late Show with Stephen Colbert*. The reason for the cancellation? Simple economics. Colbert’s show was hemorrhaging cash—reportedly losing the network a staggering **\$40 million per year**. But to the left, that’s not a financial decision—it’s the beginning of the end of the Constitution.

That’s right. According to Hostin, the axing of an unfunny late-night show that viewers have long since abandoned is somehow the first domino in the collapse of American democracy.

“This is the dismantling of our democracy,” Hostin cried. “This is the dismantling of our Constitution!”

Seriously?

Colbert was once a comedian. But like many in Hollywood, he allowed his obsession with Donald Trump and progressive talking points to consume every ounce of his creativity. Night after night, his so-called “comedy” turned into little more than smug monologues bashing conservatives, Trump supporters, and anyone daring to question the woke narrative.

It’s no wonder viewers tuned out in droves.

CBS and Paramount, dealing with real financial pressure and an upcoming merger with Skydance Media, finally did what they should have done years ago—cut the dead weight. But instead of accepting the reality that Colbert simply lost his audience, the left is spinning wild conspiracies.

Colbert himself, just before the cancellation, claimed that a legal settlement involving Trump was a “big fat bribe” to gain favor for the Skydance merger. Of course, he offered no evidence—just innuendo and theatrics. Now Hostin has taken it a step further, declaring the end of his career to be the end of democracy itself.

What makes Hostin’s performance even more absurd is her selective memory. She whines about First Amendment rights, yet has remained silent—or even supportive—when conservatives were deplatformed, demonetized, or silenced for daring to express opinions outside the liberal mainstream.

When Twitter suspended users for questioning lockdowns, when YouTube nuked channels for discussing vaccine concerns, or when Facebook suppressed the Hunter Biden laptop story in the run-up to the 2020 election—where was Sunny Hostin’s righteous outrage about democracy then?

But now, suddenly, the firing of a millionaire TV host with plunging ratings is a constitutional crisis?

Here’s the truth: Democracy isn’t under threat because CBS canceled a failed talk show. Democracy is threatened when media and political elites—like those on *The View*—create fake moral panics to shield their own from accountability.

Stephen Colbert’s show didn’t get canceled because of politics. It got canceled because Americans stopped watching. If anything, CBS’s decision shows that the free market still works.

If Hostin wants to save “democracy,” she might start by respecting the intelligence of the American people—and maybe, just maybe, stop pretending that canceling a late-night clown show is equivalent to burning the Constitution.