Maybe Impeachment: American Crime Story didn't gain cultural traction because it was mostly about the illicit private lives of two consensual adults

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"As the country illustrated in 1998 (and apparently again in 2016), we don’t really care that much about the private lives of politicians, and that’s probably even more true today than it was in the ’90s," says Dustin Rowles. "Republicans overplayed their hands during the Clinton impeachment scandal, and so apparently did Ryan Murphy in overestimating our collective interests in the sordid details of Clinton’s sex life."