The "Shoot the Messenger" Policy of the American Left is Problematic.

The American Left is conditioned to dismiss anything by anyone who's screwed up in the past, even if they are correct on the issue at hand.

This isn't a call for the critics to work with those who are, politically-speaking, Bad Take Machines. But if these people have little issue highlighting the Human Broken Clocks on cable news when they sporadically get something right, why not afford the Bad Take Machines the same leeway?

Or put it this way, if you go out of your way to point out that Tucker Carlson/Rachel Maddow is right about Issue X, but not when Rachel Maddow/Tucker Carlson is right about Issue X, you're most likely in denial about your biases.  

ESPECIALLY when 90% of the American Left still use Mainstream Media (frequency will vary) to get their information, even if to deconstruct it (the number of people who regularly use C-SPAN or the actual legislative websites to read bills and watch speeches unfiltered could be counted on one hand).

The thing that the American Right, the American Liberal, and the American Moderate have in common is that they generally stick together despite the disagreements.