Too late, it is already being ignored. My wife posted some of the stuff on facebook that I sent her from this chat and she got a flurry of replies almost immediately saying in various ways "Doesn't matter, this is a nothingburger, you are a leftist lunatic shill". So, yeah, the cult has already moved on, or at least begun to move on.
Humans have an almost shocking ability to justify anything that maintains their current level of comfort or helps them avoid any kind of mental discomfort, even if their current level of comfort is objectively abhorrent.