I think you're right.
I think there's folks on here who will feel grief, because in tech and politics we keep doing this to ourselves. We're in parasocial relationships with these personalities. We want a banner to form up behind rather than forming genuine connection with each other to build our movements. It's why the democrats went with Platner even though black activists were warning about him ages before.
It's a spiral.
https://dotart.blog/cobbles/the-spiral