Politics is just downstream of culture.
If the public demands censorship by mob justice, the government — which is not a principled institution, but a favor-for-favor system of legal quid pro quos — will eventually see the benefit of censorship by mob as well.
Which is why I find this current folly more worrisome than AllahPundit. He may be right that this attempt at rewriting history For Social Justice will fail, as it’s simply too ludicrous to win the day.
But even if it doesn’t win the day, it is apparently now a proposition that People Must Take Seriously.