That’s factually false. Nobody who matters in any meaningful way wants to “destroy” Northam. He needs to resign as governor because he can’t effectively govern a diverse state after this. But nobody is saying he can’t continue to be a physician or to do other public service.
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Remember who he is. This is not an author being boycotted or an electrician being fired. It’s an elected official at the highest level. He’s only there because the people elected him, and many would not have done so had they had this info.
Again, you can't decontextualize people's decisions (about voting in this instance) from social media framing. People take their cues from how their in-group is responding. Intransigence breeds intransigence.