It was all fun and games for Dems when Brett Kavanaugh was in the barrel. But now that allegations of sexual misconduct and racial insensitivity threaten to take down Virginia's Governor, Lieutenant Governor, and Attorney General, and even—horror of horrors—elevate a Republican to the governorship, the Dem thrill is gone.

CNN's New Day was surprisingly tough on the Dems this morning. Washington Post reporter Toluse Olorunnipa began by offering an unsparing assessment of the Dem predicament. Olorunnipa said that Democrats run "the risk of being seen as hypocrites" if they don't apply to Lt. Gov. Justin Fairfax and Attorney General Mark Herring the same "zero tolerance" standard they applied to others.

Amazingly, substitute host Poppy Harlow, co-host John Berman and even Jackie Kucinich of the Daily Beast expressed similar sentiments.

Harlow said that the report that Tyson had brought her accusations to Rep. Bobby Scott more than a year ago was "complicating things" and was "really troubling," with Olorunnipa pointing out that it undermines Fairfax's claim that the accusation only surfaced for the first time when he was on the verge of becoming governor.

Berman pointed out that Democrats have "set the bar high" when it comes to the sort of accusations Tyson has made, and that "if Democrats were to hold themselves to the standard they laid out before, there isn't much question about what they would do."

Kucinich then said that the "silence is deafening" from national Dems and activists regarding Tyson's accusation. Kucinich particularly pointed at Kirsten Gillibrand, saying she been "very vocal" when it came to Al Franken and others.

Note: In contrast with the other panelists, who went after the Dems pretty hard, John Avlon tried to spread the blame around to Republicans: "the idea that this is a particularly Democratic problem doesn’t hold any water at all. There’s been a neo-Confederate strain that Republicans are playing footsie with for quite some time."