Elected officials accountable to their electorates?

It'll never catch on!

More seriously, I suspect about the only way to overcome this insistence on re-defining reality to gloss over any ideological failings the left has will only be overcome by authoritative judgements on the facts of the matter.

Such as occurs in a court case. It needs to happen to show the world that the US aspires to be more than the richest banana republic in history.