"The Left/Right are in tears"

I'm trying to say something like "The liberals of US are in tears today over (a political news)". I want to shorten it to "The left are in tears". However when I google for that phrase, I see that nobody ever used this sentence. Could you please help me rephrase that?

You will find more Google hits if you search for "the left is in tears". In US English, collective nouns - organisations, teams, political groupings, companies, etc, are almost invariably considered to be singular. Your use of the plural 'are' reflects the British usage, which allows both singular and plural. To answer your question, you can say the left are (or is) in tears, smiling, delighted, unhappy, confused, punching the air, etc, about something, e.g. some political news (not 'a news' - news is uncountable).