It's way past time the left stopped holding itself to that, or really any, standard. That's the first step to making the media have to treat the left and the right equally. Unfortunately, that'll never happen, because the left loves to "but ackshually" and purity test itself more than it loves winning and taking/keeping power. Power is ALL that matters. Truth is irrelevant. Facts are irrlevant. Fairness, kindness, decency and so on, completely irrelevant.
No one is coming to save us. We're bordered by oceans and two countries that are, combined, less than half our size by population and about 1/7th our GDP. No one will stop whatever our holocause looks like. No one will prevent whatever the worst impulses of the hateful Right triumphs over the coming decades. I give us little chance to change course, but if there is any chance, the left has to start playing by the rules in place right now. Learn Calvinball and play to win for a change.