Could this be the reason why I and so many others are extremely frustrated?

[LiberalLovinLug]

7. Yes exactly

We are in a new age of social media + reality TV. Trump, for all his shortcomings, is adept at these two arenas. As well the GOP is ahead of Democrats.

But more than that, it is what the message is, how you frame the message. The "normal channels" are clogged up, old, and rusty. No one, or not too many other than the conservative old guard wing, believes otherwise. Unfortunately they steer the PR rules.

Its not that you don't still use the slow advance of procedural requirements, on an technocratic level, but what the Democrats lack is the publicity angle as a part of a two pronged attack. This fear of upsetting the applecart by getting too emotional on air, or risking being accused of exaggerating the threat, or still desparatly clinging to the failed "if they go low, we go high" strategy which they insist includes poltitely letting the GOP spokepeople talk loudly over top of them rattling off 5 or 6 lies about them in quick succession, and taking up the whole segment. Hoping beyond hope that viewers will watch and conclude that the spokesperson that was meek and polite must be the one that is right. Meanwhile the sensationalism of the explosive "alternative facts" that the R spokesperson implanted stays with them.

Why can't we be the ones that knock? We should throw out accusations that aren't already stamped and proven in a court of law. Let them have to come on air bumbling, angry, red in the face at our absolute gall in accusing them of traitorous actions.