Clear, concise truth gets ignored by the Left if they can get away with it.
If you have ever had someone in your life that was hiding the truth, desperate that it not be revealed, you see them react in predictable ways. In general, people like that need "smoke" to hide the light of the truth. They lie, deceive, misdefine, mischaracterize, miscontextualize, etc. They will simply act as if some evidence of the truth hasn't been presented and see if ignoring it will make it go away, but if they are forced to confront it, then we get into denial, deflection, distraction, reversal, rabbit holes, and a few other manipulative techniques.
Smoke can be very effective, but it has one big weakness - it has no substance, no staying power. One can keep cranking out smoke to try to keep the truth obscured, but it is exhausting and time is the great revealer and smoke dissipater. It just can't be sustained long term and when it clears, there is the truth where it was the whole time.
Ever notice how short a memory the Left has? They said this or that about Covid a year ago and many of those things have been totally debunked, but government responses to the virus used that smoke to justify their actions. There are dozens of examples, or you could choose virtually any issue and it applies. There is never any accountability for the bad policy they impose on others, no admission of making wrong and harmful declarations of "truth" - only, it seems, that anything is justified to achieve short-term political advantage. When forced to talk about these failures, we see the manipulative techniques come out forcefully.
Seems to me it would be easier to say, "Yeah, defunding the police was a galactically stupid idea. Learned my lesson on that one." If the last few years has taught me anything, it is that the Left is totally incapable of introspection and learning from mistakes in ideas and rhetoric because they won't even acknowledge them - but they are pros at cranking out smoke.