Everyone derides the tabloids as garbage. Nobody admits to reading them. Yet millions of copies are sold every week. Likewise, everyone says they are sick of the Clinton scandal.
Nobody admits to obsessing over it.
Yet millions of people can't stop commenting on it. Check it out. If debate is waning, I don't see it. What I do notice is that the tenor of discussions is shifting as the initial shock wears off. To be replaced by full-blown outrage.