>that's the kind of loyalty the movement needs....it's just kinda wasted on the wrong figureheads.
That "loyalty" is precisely why this exact fucking scenario keeps playing out time and time again. What incentive is there to change the way you're running things when limitless forgivness from an army of willfully ignorant sycophants is a foregone conclusion?
>I'm optimistic that the lessons will be learned from all of this though.
As long as the only requirement for these peoples' audience to forgive them is a half-assed, one-sided "I dunno, dude sucks and we don't like him" 'apologies'/'explanations' you are not getting anything better.