Every time a democrat raises the bar of egregiousness without consequence, they are emboldened.
The answer, of course, is not to fight their fire with similarly corrupt fire, but the answer is most definitely to fight. Being smart about it, being right, and being ever persistent... eventually the wall of silence by the main stream media will be broken
Maybe the party elders are in on the coup. Maybe they are just too old and clueless and besotted with high end scotch to recognize that the world outside their DC power club bubble isn't the chummy world of 1960 anymore.