The Purifiers strengthen the Traditionalists

From "For all of his early promise, Nate Silver ended up swallowing, and even pushing what might be the single concept most destructive to the republic right now: bothsidesism." by Ann Althouse.  

"Silver long overstayed his usefulness, so if he does go? Good riddance."

Says the first commenter in a discussion at Metafilter, "The end of the road for FiveThirtyEight?" 

All in response to Disney/ABC terminating Nate Silver's contract.  Althouse's commenters make three points.  

First is that this is primarily left wing outrage that Silver was process and methodology driven rather than emotion driven.

Second is the observation that just a few months ago there was a similar dethronement where the founder icon is driven out of their own organization.  First James O'Keefe is defenestrated at Project Veritas and now Nate Silver is defenestrated at FiveThirtyEight.  A little odd, the similarities.

The third point made is that this is evidence of a continuing trend of the Woke and the mainstream media gradually deplatforming Classical Liberals for adhering to Age of Enlightenment ideological principles.  Enigma notes:

With Nate Silver's ejection, the pool of orphaned left-ideals-but-disgusted-with-the-establishment gains another member. When they find the will to toughen-up, watch for a decisive break from the corrupt-oligarchic-bully-or-bribe-you-for-votes left.

Jordan Peterson

Joe Rogan

Steven Pinker

Bret Weinstein

Bill Maher

Tulsi Gabbard

Krysten Sinema

Bari Weiss

Elon Musk

Howard Kunstler

Matt Tiabbi

Nate Silver

The authoritarian, totalitarian, freedom-rejecting Left becomes, the more pure.  The more Classical Liberals there are under the same tent with Libertarians, Conservatives, Free Marketers, Friedmanites, Traditionalists, and Heyekians, the better.  They don't agree on everything but they do agree on the important elements of Freedom and the Age of Enlightenment agenda.