1. We talk a lot about how the GOP has been cowed by the Trumpists. But an almost equally important dynamic is that many centrist and right-wing institutions have also been cowed by the Trumpists. https://twitter.com/AdamSerwer/status/1352985397173903362

2. The lazy term "cancel culture" doesn't quite get at the dynamic. This isn't a case of large mobs getting people erased but rather a longstanding pattern where in the name of a notional balance, centrist institutions appease the far right. Goes back to at least McCarthyism.

3. The partial silencing of Trump and QAnon is making this dynamic worse. To prove "balance," social media & centrist institutions are now silencing left and liberal speech, including stuff that is completely innocuous.

4. Centrist institutions are congenitally incapable of seeing asymmetrical polarization, so they respond to right-wing outrage with a reflexive swat on "both sides" -- as if there was equality of sides. More here: https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/trump-censorship-times-wolfe/