Well, it depends what you mean by the right. If you mean the never-Trumper right, I disagree with you; I think they're held to a reasonably high standard of common sense, and violations of that standard are rightly criticized. If you mean the Breitbart right, the Trump right, the birther movement and the "Hillary Runs a Sex Trafficking Ring out of a Pizza Parlour" right, then all standards have been abandoned, because they're completely unsalvageable and there's no point in even trying. It would be silly to look at a group of people frothing at the mouth chanting "lock her up" and talking about how Muslims and Jews are ruining and / or secretly controlling society and say, "you guys really need to do better". Constructive criticism implies that amelioration is reasonably possible.
Unfortunately, a significant segment of the left seems to have gone over the other side of that cliff as well at this point.
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