but their voters dont care as long as their politicians just continue to provide means to an ideological end. like as long as you still promise to shove the word of god down the heathens throat legislatively and keep nonwhite people in their place...you always have a vote.

but people on the left still hold our politicians accountable for falling below a certain bar. we still have standards independent of our political self-interests. intelligence, honesty, compassion, etc.

so theres an imbalance in the judgment criteria there.

and it carries over to the media too. basically dems are criticized when theyre 'uncivil', they 'overreach', theyre too 'overprepared', etc. but repubs are just judged by whether their words/actions resonate with their own political base or not.

dems are still expected to uphold humane values. repubs are just expected to win.

otherwise there would be nothing for the media to 'both sides' their horserace political coverage and provide false balance/equivalence. it would just be 90% negative against repubs (deservedly so since they are so much more extreme).