I don’t get it. They clearly have a left leaning base. Why throw that away?

I recently got something similar on reddit. I don’t remeber the exact quote, but “I can’t believe these people haven’t been murdered yet” is apparently a credible death threat now.

No

It was a science podcast that links sources. I’ll go back and see where they got it from.

Time. This has happened a million times. The regular pattern is an explosion, a correction, then slow growth either until that platform becomes the new bad guy or gets destroyed by the government.