The left know they are in big time trouble and what has happened the last few weeks has most likely cost them the 2018 midterms.
The days of Walter Cronkite and Dan Rather are over. They don’t control the information any more. It’s killing them.
The problem is that they have not changed their game plan enough. They failed to consider that the sane people have news outlets now in the form of the internet blogs, tweets and other social media.
In such a world, lies get outed and the truth percolates to the top.