Instead of "This economy sucks!" "Yeah, but look at the data, it's getting better..."
Now we just have "This economy sucks!" "Yeah"
The point is, the argument isn't "this data is right leaning" vs "this data is left leaning" or whatever your skew-scope is.
The argument at present: "We don't need to know to know X" versus "Of course we need to know X".
And ther'es clearly a fascist convincing people it's all useless while they ply their grift of choice.