This is why it's important to let go of the hero worshipping and idolization of leftist figures in social media, that is why it is so important to be an iconoclast, not just to figures of your enemies, but to your allies as well.

Because if you end up idolizing someone, it will be a lot harder to let go of them when they end up doing something absolutely vile. And your integrity, morals and principles vanish in a puff of smoke, leaving behind the stench of cronyism in its wake.

The strength of leftism doesn't lie in its unity, (In fact that is a tankie red flag.) it lies in our ability to keep each other honest. If we can't even do that, then we'd be no better than the AltRight. Because this kind of cronyism, the refusal to indict your own because "they contributed a lot to us" is exactly what fascists and other oppressive orgs are known to do.

This was what made the Elekk/Monads/Myass cronyism and self-gratifying circular self-affirmation so toxic; Anyone who tried to hold them accountable became a potential target for harassment, gaslighting and whisper campaigns. We can't let that happen if we're to make a difference in this broken world.