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> This would be significantly less of a problem if he didn't somehow have a legion of paranoid fans ready to consider him a martyr. Wonder how they got there.

So just ban everyone we disagree with before they get enough fans is the suggestion? Sounds like you're implying that here. For every vocal crazy person silenced by such a policy there are plenty of well intentioned people challenging the status quo who would also be silenced.