The point seemed to be to hurl as much mud as possible at Donald Trump. If it even LOOKED bad, forget whether it really WAS bad, then it got hurled. This was the job of the loyal lefty foot soldiers.
Trouble was, it only made the loyal lefty foot soldiers obviously bad themselves. And when a voice comes along insisting upon looking at what is actually true, rather than at the illusion du jour, they are now faced with a choice. Come clean, or really and truly be left in the dust.
This looks uncommonly like the work of God. God is interested intensely both in truth in the face of lies and in striving to reconcile, but with the ultimate choice being placed on humanity. Knowing what men will do, does not absolve them of the onus or take away the reward for actually having done so. The same sun that softens the butter, hardens the clay. What attitude are you going to strike? is the question that comes to us from heaven.