Note to mainstream media journalists, editors producers, headline writers, Twitter writers: DO NOT REVERT BACK TO BUSINESS AS USUAL! Do not make a Peleton bike, a tan suit, a slight misstatement the same headline or emphasis as inciting racist violence or lying to Congress.

Do not fall back on false equivalence-- including equating Elizabeth Warren and @AOC with Ted Cruz, Lauren Boebert or Louis Gohment. Report facts when there is norm-breaking or obstruction by Congress. Do not think that there are no lessons to be learned from the past decade.

Do not give added voice and legitimacy to those who lie to you and the public, or sinecures to Trumpist sycophants. Do not do more panels with a right-wing commentator and two journalists striving to be objective.

Do not give the same bandwidth to a trivial mistake or a small non-scandal as you did to something much mroe deadly under Trump. Use the same standard for Jen Psaki as you did for Kayleigh McEnany or her predecessors. No DEFCON1 if she skips a day or makes a small misstatement.

If you believe that now with Trump gone you can go back to the way things were, you will be complicit in allowing miscreants to avoid the blame and focus they deserve, and create more ground for lies and bombast.